Neurocrat <·········@one.net.au> writes:
> ... I'm wondering whether anybody
> knows of any projects in progress to develop a free (beer and speech)
> GUI library - preferably cross platform, but at minimum built to run
> on free Unixen?
Thanks, everyone, for your suggestions. I'll check them all out in due
course.
At a glance, the most promising approach so far seems to be Common
Lisp bindings for gtk. I'm a little surprised that this hasn't already
been done. Does anyone know of any technical reasons why it can't be
done, or would be so difficult as to be impractical?
To follow up the followups in this thread, the lack of a mature free
GUI toolkit suggests to me that Lisp is underused. I can understand
the perspective of those who regard the use of Lisp as a "competitive
advantage", but IMO this is a clear example of why there might be a
*co-operative* advantage in raising Lisp's profile somewhat.
Neurocrat <·········@one.net.au> writes:
| At a glance, the most promising approach so far seems to be Common
| Lisp bindings for gtk. I'm a little surprised that this hasn't already
| been done. Does anyone know of any technical reasons why it can't be
Uh, it has been done three times already. For the most promising
case, see clg at <URL:http://ww.telent.net/cliki/Graphics%20Toolkit>
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Hannu
On 13 Jun 2000 14:16:15 +1000, Neurocrat <·········@one.net.au> wrote:
> Neurocrat <·········@one.net.au> writes:
>
> > ... I'm wondering whether anybody
> > knows of any projects in progress to develop a free (beer and speech)
> > GUI library - preferably cross platform, but at minimum built to run
> > on free Unixen?
>
> Thanks, everyone, for your suggestions. I'll check them all out in due
> course.
>
> At a glance, the most promising approach so far seems to be Common
> Lisp bindings for gtk. I'm a little surprised that this hasn't already
> been done. Does anyone know of any technical reasons why it can't be
> done, or would be so difficult as to be impractical?
It is possible that many professional Common Lisp programmers use commercial
versions with existing portable GUI toolkits, eg Xanalys CAPI or CLIM.
__Jason