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From: commander.coder on 11 Dec 2006 10:33 Hello, I'm looking at a project that will require a GUI and I'd like to use CL, especially the newly-1.0 SBCL. I'm interested in wxCL in part because it is cross-platform and the interface looks native on Windows. But that I can see there has been no traffic on the project mailing list in some time so I wonder if this is a working project. The same seems to me to hold for the other projects that I found by googling things like "GUI common lisp" (I think I've done a good search, including of this group). Could some kind person enlighten me whether there are working and up-to-date ways to build interfaces in CL? This would be my first non-toy CL project so something that doesn't require too-advanced CL knowledge would be ideal but any information would be appreciated.
From: Pascal Bourguignon on 11 Dec 2006 10:45 commander.coder(a)hotmail.com writes: > Hello, > > I'm looking at a project that will require a GUI and I'd like to use > CL, especially the newly-1.0 SBCL. I'm interested in wxCL in part > because it is cross-platform and the interface looks native on Windows. > But that I can see there has been no traffic on the project mailing > list in some time so I wonder if this is a working project. The same > seems to me to hold for the other projects that I found by googling > things like "GUI common lisp" (I think I've done a good search, > including of this group). Well there are two problems with lisp. 1- lisp code works. So once a library is developed, there's no much traffic, because there's no bug. 2- it looks like there are more libraries than developers, and developers can work only on one thing at a time. > Could some kind person enlighten me whether there are working and > up-to-date ways to build interfaces in CL? It looks like you're in the best position to answer this question. Fetch wxCL and try it, and come back telling us how it worked. (If it doesn't work, you'll still be the best placed to make it work and send patch!). Perhaps lisp is only for people above 48th parallel... (OT reference: 1165841017.866568.180040(a)n67g2000cwd.googlegroups.com) -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ CAUTION: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85 million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight.
From: Bill Atkins on 11 Dec 2006 11:03 commander.coder(a)hotmail.com writes: > Hello, > > I'm looking at a project that will require a GUI and I'd like to use > CL, especially the newly-1.0 SBCL. I'm interested in wxCL in part > because it is cross-platform and the interface looks native on Windows. > But that I can see there has been no traffic on the project mailing > list in some time so I wonder if this is a working project. The same > seems to me to hold for the other projects that I found by googling > things like "GUI common lisp" (I think I've done a good search, > including of this group). > > Could some kind person enlighten me whether there are working and > up-to-date ways to build interfaces in CL? This would be my first > non-toy CL project so something that doesn't require too-advanced CL > knowledge would be ideal but any information would be appreciated. CAPI is far and away the best Lisp GUI toolkit I've seen. You can download the LispWorks Personal Edition to try it out. But you sound like you're looking for Free software, so in that case you probably want to check out Ltk and one of the Gtk bindings as well. HTH, Bill
From: Rob Thorpe on 11 Dec 2006 11:28 commander.coder(a)hotmail.com wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking at a project that will require a GUI and I'd like to use > CL, especially the newly-1.0 SBCL. I'm interested in wxCL in part > because it is cross-platform and the interface looks native on Windows. > But that I can see there has been no traffic on the project mailing > list in some time so I wonder if this is a working project. The same > seems to me to hold for the other projects that I found by googling > things like "GUI common lisp" (I think I've done a good search, > including of this group). > > Could some kind person enlighten me whether there are working and > up-to-date ways to build interfaces in CL? This would be my first > non-toy CL project so something that doesn't require too-advanced CL > knowledge would be ideal but any information would be appreciated. Other possibilities are LTK and the various libraries that use GTK, such as CellsGTK. I haven't done real comparisons of these though.
From: rays on 11 Dec 2006 11:33
Hi, If you are looking for an active project, then cells-gtk is there. It runs on both windows and linux and uses the gtk library. su |