Hi,
I've just started writing my First Big CLIM Application. I've tried writing
CLIM applications before, and I find myself in exactly the same situation
as I have at all previous times. There is little information available
about how to build a CLIM application. The best I can do is look at various
examples and documents (at Harlequin and the "specification" available from
www.franz.com) and wonder how they work. My greatest achievement so far has
been to figure out that I should worry about presentation types rather than
gadgets when writing a CLIM application. And ····@bbn.com appears to be a
very low traffic list on which I see few questions and fewer answers.
I would of course like to find better learning materials. Can anyone
suggest anything appropriate? Something that discusses the process of
building a CLIM application? And extending a basic CLIM application in
interesting ways? (For instance, what does it mean to inherit from an
existing frame class anyway?)
Thanks,
Sunil
I don't know how much these have for examples, but:
http://www.elwood.com/alu/table/references.htm#clim
also lists a white-paper, online spec, and other resources like
free-clim.
http://www.elwood.com/alu/table/learn.htm#tutorial
also lists another tutorial
I'm sure there must be examples distributed with the vendor's
implementations, but I'm also under the impression that there are some
standard, canonical examples floating about. For instance, I think the
free-clim site has some demo code (associated maybe with Express
Windows?) which shows some common idioms.
"Howard R. Stearns" <······@elwood.com> writes:
> I don't know how much these have for examples, but:
>
> http://www.elwood.com/alu/table/references.htm#clim
> also lists a white-paper, online spec, and other resources like
> free-clim.
>
> http://www.elwood.com/alu/table/learn.htm#tutorial
> also lists another tutorial
>
> I'm sure there must be examples distributed with the vendor's
> implementations, but I'm also under the impression that there are some
> standard, canonical examples floating about. For instance, I think the
> free-clim site has some demo code (associated maybe with Express
> Windows?) which shows some common idioms.
Thanks for reminding me of the free-clim effort. Not that I'm going to
attempt wading through the source code, but the on-line spec is going to be
quite useful.
I have gone through the alu resources on clim before, but nothing there
struck be as being particularly useful. One of the responses I got in my
email suggested that I look at the symbolics clim 2 manual. I have been
able to dig out the clim 1 manual, but not the clim 2. And the tutorial
section looks more like what I had been hoping to find. Does anyone have
any suggestions where I might find the symbolics clim 2 manual?
Thanks,
Sunil
> I would of course like to find better learning materials.
You know about the CLIM stuff at the CMU AI Repository, I suppose?
Among other things, there's a CLIM 2.0 tutorial (called "luv93tut")
from the LUV93 conference. It includes 45 slides and 93K of example
code.
(I don't have any CLIM experience myself.)
Arthur Lemmens
Arthur Lemmens <·······@simplex.nl> writes:
> > I would of course like to find better learning materials.
>
> You know about the CLIM stuff at the CMU AI Repository, I suppose?
> Among other things, there's a CLIM 2.0 tutorial (called "luv93tut")
> from the LUV93 conference. It includes 45 slides and 93K of example
> code.
>
> (I don't have any CLIM experience myself.)
I checked, could not find the slides. I searched for luv93 but came up with
nothing. Do you have a URL?
BTW, there are also some slides at www.digitool.com/pub/clim/ but they are
only part 2 of the tutorial. Part 1 is missing. Another problem I have had
is that it is really difficult to correlate the slides with the provided
sample code. Not a very useful learning too, IMHO.
Sunil
> I checked, could not find the slides. I searched for luv93 but
> came up with nothing. Do you have a URL?
It's at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/
lang/lisp/gui/clim/clim_2/luv93tut/0.html
It's probably the same as
ftp://www.digitool.com/pub/clim/clim-2/luv-93-tutorials/
Arthur Lemmens
Arthur Lemmens <·······@simplex.nl> writes:
> > I checked, could not find the slides. I searched for luv93 but
> > came up with nothing. Do you have a URL?
>
> It's at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/
> lang/lisp/gui/clim/clim_2/luv93tut/0.html
>
> It's probably the same as
> ftp://www.digitool.com/pub/clim/clim-2/luv-93-tutorials/
>
> Arthur Lemmens
Hmmm, I wonder how I missed that. Must be the unusually early morning I've
had today. And yes, it is the same tutorial, with the same problems --
starts at part II of the tutorial with no mention what part I contains, and
still has no indication of code-slide correspondences.
Sunil