Hello,

_>routines are dissimilar.  This is where I need some help.  Karsten, the young
>lady who wrote the German MCL to ACL graphic code has responded, and I have
>asked for the English version of her code as a reference.  Still, I need to go

Actually I am a male and now 30 years old.


>That is exactly the major limitation to the MCL graphics package: THERE IS
>NOTHING LIKE A BMP WINDOW, e.g. a window which "remembers" what you have

Well there are pictures in MCL, this is something like a bmp file. I no longer 
have access 
to mcl, but try something like:

(defclass picture-view +the-mcl-view-with-scrolll-bars ..
 ((my-picture ....))

Put the picture-view in a window and define
(defmethod view-draw-contents ((me picture-view))
  (when (valid-picture-p (....)
              (draw-picture ...))

Then you a something like
(defmethod save-the-picture ((me picture-view))
   (start-picture me)
   <All your drawing commands>
   (let ((pict (get-picture me)))
          (store-the-pict-handle me pict))
....)


Karsten