From: Ramesh Vaidhyanathan
Subject: Object-Oriented GUI based on CLOS?
Date: Sat, 16 May 1992 17:48:34 +0000
Message-ID: <1992May16.174834.13621@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>

Hello Netters,


I am looking for a GUI development software (preferably based on CLOS
or based on CL) in which I can draw graphical icons of different objects 
on the screen and attach a 'CLOS object' to the graphical icon. 
Similarly I should be able to specify the connectivity(i.e. specify some 
slots of the objects) between the graphical objects by drawing them as 
connected on the screen.


I tried lispview. But it doesn't have the above mentioned features in it.
I have also heard about GINA, CLUE and GARNET. Will it be possible to 
implement the above mentioned GUI using any of these three? 


Plese e-mail if you have any info.


Thanks in advance.


-Ramesh Vaidhyanathan


Laboratory for Intelligent Process Systems
School of Chemical Engineering
Purdue University. 

From: Scott McKay
Subject: Object-Oriented GUI based on CLOS?
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 1992 20:33:11 +0000
Message-ID: <19920603203322.7.SWM@DJINN.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>

    Date: Sat, 16 May 1992 13:48 EDT
    From: Ramesh Vaidhyanathan <········@ecn.purdue.edu>

    Hello Netters,

    I am looking for a GUI development software (preferably based on CLOS
    or based on CL) in which I can draw graphical icons of different objects 
    on the screen and attach a 'CLOS object' to the graphical icon. 
    Similarly I should be able to specify the connectivity(i.e. specify some 
    slots of the objects) between the graphical objects by drawing them as 
    connected on the screen.


    I tried lispview. But it doesn't have the above mentioned features in it.
    I have also heard about GINA, CLUE and GARNET. Will it be possible to 
    implement the above mentioned GUI using any of these three? 


    Plese e-mail if you have any info.

CLIM is a good choice, too, but it is not free and is rather different
from the other UI toolkits you mention.  One of CLIM's basic principles
is that the objects you see in the UI are simply "presentations" of the
objects of the application; that is, for all practical purposes, the
objects in the UI *are* the application objects.

    Thanks in advance.


    -Ramesh Vaidhyanathan


    Laboratory for Intelligent Process Systems
    School of Chemical Engineering
    Purdue University.