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Re: Output recording and presentations
> Date: 13 Oct 1993 12:15:00 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "William M. York" <york@parc.xerox.com>
> Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1993 11:39:06 -0700
> From: Brian Anderson 234-0878 <bha@ata.ca.boeing.com>
> > Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1993 13:28 -0400
> > From: Scott McKay <SWM@stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com>
> > WITH-OUTPUT-AS-PRESENTATION turns output recording back on for you,
> > but I can't recall the reason why it does this. I think it's probably
> > a bug.
> Note that on page 23-17 of the spec, it says that the presentation is
> *not* inserted in the output history if output recording is off. I
> was counting on this to use the idiom of creating a bunch of output
> records with output recording and drawing off, insert them into the
> appropriate place in the output history, and replay them myself. This
> almost worked except for the fact that the presentation output record
> was inserted at the top level of the history (when I ran things to
> create an output record) and in another place in the history when I
> inserted it there myself.
> Ah, you definitely want with-output-to-output-record. Then you don't
> even turn recording off, you just collect the output records in a
> separate "root" record, which you splice into the history at your
> convenience.
I tried something similar here. WITH-OUTPUT-TO-OUTPUT-RECORD was fine when
I wanted just output-records. However I could never figure out how to get
a real honest-to-goodness presentation out of it (as Brian describes in his
original note).
Am I just being dense? What am I missing here?
Thanks
Nichael
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