Hey all.
I read the GUI portion of the FAQ (part 7/7 I believe) and the
only Lisp GUI implementations I could find were either for X
only, or were commercial. I was wondering if there was a Lisp
(or Lisp like functional language) with support for creating
GUIs that runs under Win95 (or compatible) and is free?
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········@Bayou.UH.EDU (········@bayou.uh.edu) writes:
>Hey all.
>I read the GUI portion of the FAQ (part 7/7 I believe) and the
>only Lisp GUI implementations I could find were either for X
>only, or were commercial. I was wondering if there was a Lisp
>(or Lisp like functional language) with support for creating
>GUIs that runs under Win95 (or compatible) and is free?
Franz Inc's free (limited) version of Allegro CL for Windows does.
You might want to check Scheme implementations, some might offer what
you need, maybe one of the Tk-toolkit using Schemes can use the
Windows version of Tk.
The Java-based Kawa Scheme is probably easy to integrate with the Java
GUI stuff.
If you have a X11 server software for Windows, you might also be able
to run a X11-based implementation on it. For OS/2 you can get a X11
server for free from xfree86.org, if I'm not mistaken. The cygnus
GNU-Win32 toolkit is quite useful in using Unix stuff on Windows,
although compiling is still not really easy.
Last, another option may be to use a HTTP server in Lisp on Unix and
feed a WWW browser on Windows with HTML forms or Javascript. cl-http
for Common Lisp and the Scheme underground http server for Scsh come
to mind.
In a word, you better put FreeBSD or Linux on your box :-)
Hope his helps. Let me know if you can't locate stuff I listed.
Martin
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········@Bayou.UH.EDU ·········@bayou.uh.edu" writes:
> I read the GUI portion of the FAQ (part 7/7 I believe) and the
> only Lisp GUI implementations I could find were either for X
> only, or were commercial. I was wondering if there was a Lisp
> (or Lisp like functional language) with support for creating
> GUIs that runs under Win95 (or compatible) and is free?
Apart from ACL/PC Lite? You could try Gambit C, if you also have
a C compiler. I succeeded in using to create a simple GUI app,
but it required some coding in C for the GUI portion.
I also like newLisp, <URL:http://www.nuevatec.com/newlisp>.
It's non-standard, mixing features from CL and Scheme, but it
has good GUI support for various platforms, including Windows.
It also has a neat environment. I like the browser which lets
you examine and edit the code for functions etc. The examples
are very good, including some GUI demos.
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