From: Mark Kantrowitz
Subject: FAQ: Lisp Window Systems and GUIs 7/7 [Monthly posting]
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This post contains Part 7 of the Lisp FAQ.
If you think of questions that are appropriate for this FAQ, or would
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Topics Covered (Part 7):
[7-1] How can I use the X Window System or other GUIs from Lisp?
[7-2] What Graphers/Browsers are available?
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Subject: [7-1] How can I use the X Window System or other GUIs from Lisp?
There are several GUI's and Lisp interfaces to the X Window System. Mailing
lists for these systems are listed in the answer to question [4-7].
Various vendors also offer their own interface-building packages.
CLX provides basic Common Lisp/X functionality. It is a de facto standard
low-level interface to X, providing equivalent functionality to XLib, but
in Lisp. It is also a good source for comparing the foreign function calls
in various Lisps. Does *not* depend on CLOS. Available free as part of the
X release in the contrib directory. Also available from
ftp.x.org:/contrib (formerly export.lcs.mit.edu) as the files
CLX.Manual.tar.Z and CLX.R5.02.tar.Z.
Primary Interface Author: Robert W. Scheifler <···@zermatt.lcs.mit.edu>
Send bug reports to ·······@expo.lcs.mit.edu.
The 232 page manual is available in /pub/R5untarred/mit/hardcopy/CLX
(PostScript format) and /pub/R5untarred/mit/doc/CLX (Interleaf source).
CLIM (Common Lisp Interface Manager) is a portable, graphical user
interface toolkit originally developed by International Lisp
Associates, Symbolics, and Xerox PARC, and now under joint development
by several Lisp vendors, including Symbolics, Franz, Lucid, Illudium,
and Harlequin. It is intended to be a portable successor of Symbolics
UIMS (Dynamic Windows, Presentations Types). CLIM 2.0 also supports
more traditional toolkit-style programming. It runs on Symbolics Lisp
Machines; Allegro, Lucid, and Harlequin on several Unix platforms;
Symbolics CLOE on 386/486 IBM PCs running Windows; and MCL on Apple
Macintoshes. It is *not* free, and with the exception of
Macintoshes, if it is available it can be purchased from the vendor
of the Lisp system you are using. For the Macintosh version write
to Illudium:
Contact: Dennis Doughty - ·······@ileaf.com
or contact: Bill York - ····@lucid.com
Illidium has signed a distribution agreement for MCL CLIM with
Lucid, so you can also get it from Lucid at ·····@lucid.com,
415-329-8400. (Lucid also has a license to distribute MCL itself.)
CLIM includes a general purpose grapher. The CLIM 2.0 SPECIFICATION
is available by anonymous ftp from ftp.uu.net:vendor/franz/clim/clim.ps.Z.
To be added to the mailing list send mail to ············@bbn.com.
CLUE (Common Lisp User-Interface Environment) is from TI, and extends CLX
to provide a simple, object-oriented toolkit (like Xt) library that uses
CLOS. Provides basic window classes, some stream I/O facilities, and a few
other utilities. Still pretty low level (it's a toolkit, not widget
library). Available free by anonymous ftp from csc.ti.com:pub/clue.tar.Z
Written by Kerry Kimbrough. Send bug reports to ·········@dsg.csc.ti.com.
CLIO (Common Lisp Interactive Objects) is a GUI from the people who created
CLUE. It provides a set of CLOS classes that represent the standard
components of an object-oriented user interface -- such as text, menus,
buttons, scroller, and dialogs. It is included as part of the CLUE
distribution, along with some packages that use it, both sample and real.
Allegro Common Windows provides a front end to CLX. Uses CLOS.
It is *not* free. Contact ····@franz.com for more information.
[Intellicorp's KEE4.0 comes with Common Windows also. They've
implemented the CW spec to run on Lucid 4.0 on Sparcs, HP300/400s,
HP700/800s, and IBM RS6000s. Contact ····@intellicorp.com for more
information.]
The LispWorks Toolkit is an extensible CLOS-based widget set that uses
CLX and CLUE. The LispWorks programming environment has been written
using the toolkit and includes: an Emacs-like editor, listener,
debugger, profiler, and operating system shell; browsers/graphers for
classes, generic functions, processes, windows, files, compilation
errors, source code systems, and setting LispWorks parameters; and an
interactive interface builder and complete online hypertext
documentation. Contact: ·················@harlqn.co.uk
CLM (Common Lisp Motif) and GINA (Generic Interactive Application) and
IB (Interface Builder). CLM runs Motif widgets in a separate C
process, with minimal work on the Lisp side and communicates between C
and Lisp using TCP sockets. Runs in Allegro CL, Sun CL, CMU CL, Lucid
CL, and Symbolics Genera. GINA uses CLOS. Available free in the X
contrib directory or by anonymous ftp from either
ftp.x.org:/contrib (formerly export.lcs.mit.edu) or
ftp.gmd.de:/gmd/gina [129.26.8.90]
as the files CLM+GINA.README, CLM2.2.tar.Z and GINA2.2.tar.Z. CLM was
written by Andreas Baecker <·······@gmdzi.gmd.de>, GINA by Mike Spenke
<······@gmdzi.gmd.de>, and IB by Thomas Berlage <·······@gmdzi.gmd.de>.
Contact Mike Spenke for more info. To be added to the mailing list,
send a message to ··················@gmdzi.gmd.de.
EW (Express Windows) is intended to mimic Symbolics' Dynamic Windows user
and programmer interfaces. It is available free in the ew/ subdirectory of
the Lisp Utilities repository. It is no longer under active development.
Runs on Sun/Lucid, Franz Allegro, and Symbolics. Should port easily to
other Lisps with CLX.
Written by Andrew L. Ressler <········@oiscola.columbia.ncr.com>.
Garnet is a large and flexible GUI. Lots of high-level features. Does
*not* depend on CLOS, but does depend on CLX. Garnet (version 2.0 and
after) is now in the public domain, and has no licensing restrictions,
so it is available to all foreign sites and for commercial uses.
Detailed instructions for obtaining it by anonymous ftp are available
by anonymous ftp from a.gp.cs.cmu.edu [128.2.242.7] as the file
/usr/garnet/garnet/README. Garnet includes the Lapidiary interactive
design tool, C32 constraint editor, spreadsheet object, Gilt
Interface Builder, automatic display management, two
widget sets (Motif look-and-feel and Garnet look-and-feel), support for
gesture recognition, and automatic constraint maintenance, application
data layout and PostScript generation. Runs in virtually any Common
Lisp environment, including Allegro, Lucid, CMU, and Harlequin Common
Lisps on Sun, DEC, HP, Apollo, IBM 6000, and many other machines.
Garnet helps implement highly-interactive, graphical, direct
manipulation programs for X/11 in Common Lisp. Typical applications
include: drawing programs similar to Macintosh MacDraw, user interfaces
for expert systems and other AI applications, box and arrow diagram
editors, graphical programming languages, game user interfaces,
simulation and process monitoring programs, user interface construction
tools, CAD/CAM programs, etc. Contact Brad Myers (···@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu)
for more information. Bug reports should be sent to ···········@cs.cmu.edu.
Administrative questions should be sent to ······@cs.cmu.edu or
··············@cs.cmu.edu. Garnet is discussed on the newsgroup
comp.windows.garnet (which is gatewayed to ············@cs.cmu.edu for
those without access to netnews).
LispView is a GUI written at Sun that does not use CLX. Instead it
converts Xlib.h directly into Lucid foreign function calls. It is intended
to be fast and tight. Uses CLOS. Available for anonymous ftp from
ftp.x.org:contrib/lispview1.1 (formerly export.lcs.mit.edu) and
xview.ucdavis.edu:pub/XView/LispView1.1
Includes a general-purpose 2D grapher library.
Written by Hans Muller (·······@sun.com). Runs in Sun CL and Lucid CL.
Direct questions about the source provision to ········@Eng.Sun.Com.
WINTERP (Widget INTERPreter) was developed at HP and uses the Xtoolkit and
Motif widget set. It is based on David Betz's XLISP interpreter, which is a
small subset of Common Lisp that runs on IBM PCs. Runs on DecStation 3100,
HP9000s, Sun3, Sparcs. It is a free-standing Lisp-based tool for setting
up window applications. Available free in X contrib directory, or by
anonymous ftp from ftp.x.org:contrib/winterp-???.tar.Z (formerly
export.lcs.mit.edu) where ??? is the version number. If you do not
have Internet access you may request the source code to be mailed
to you by sending a message to ··············@netcom.com. Contact
Niels Mayer ·····@netcom.com for more information.
YYonX is a port of the YY system to X windows. Runs in Lucid CL, Allegro
CL, and Symbolics Genera. Supports kanjii. Developed at Aoyama Gakuin
University. Available free by anonymous ftp from ftp.csrl.aoyama.ac.jp:YY/
Written by Masayuki Ida <···@cc.aoyama.ac.jp>
Picasso is a CLOS based GUI, and is available from
postgres.berkeley.edu:/pub/Picasso-2.0
toe.cs.berkeley.edu:pub/picasso/
It runs on DecStation 3100s, Sun3 (SunOs), Sun4 (Sparc), and Sequent
Symmetry in Allegro CL. The file pub/xcl.tar.Z contains X-Common Lisp
interface routines. Send mail to ·······@postgres.berkeley.edu for
more information. [Picasso is no longer an actively supported system.]
XIT (X User Interface Toolkit) is an object-oriented user interface
development environment for the X Window System based on Common Lisp,
CLOS, CLX, and CLUE. It has been developed by the Research Group
DRUID at the Department of Computer Science of the University of
Stuttgart (·····@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de) as a framework for
Common Lisp/CLOS applications with graphical user interfaces for the X
Window System. XIT contains user interface toolkits, including
general building blocks and mechanisms for building arbitrary user
interface elements and a set of predefined common elements (widgets),
as well as high-level interactive tools for constructing, inspecting,
and modifying user interfaces by means of direct manipulation.
Although the system kernel is quite stable, XIT is still under active
development. XIT can be obtained free by anonymous ftp from
ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.211.2) in the directory
/pub/xit/.
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Subject: [7-2] What Graphers/Browsers are available?
Most of the graphics toolkits listed above include graphers. In
particular, CLIM, Lispworks, Garnet, and Lispview all include
graphers. The ISI grapher used to be in fairly widely used, but the
CLIM grapher seems to be overtaking it in popularity.
A simple grapher like the one described in "Lisp Lore" by Bromeley and
Lamson is available by anonymous ftp from
ftp.csrl.aoyama.ac.jp:graphers/
as the file graphers.tar.Z.uu. It includes versions for CLX, Express
Windows, NCW, CLUE, CLM/GINA, Common Windows, LispView, Winterp, CLIM
and YY. Several implementations have a mouse sensitivity feature and
others have implementation-specific features. A copy has been made
available from the Lisp Utilities Repository. For further information,
contact Masayuki Ida <···@csrl.aoyama.ac.jp>.
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