Hi.
Posted this in a thread which was apparently abandoned :)
Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
>>> Check clx (included in clisp, compile it with --module clx/new-clx),
>>> and Qix and Sokoban examples.
>> Does clx work in MS Windows???
> You need a X server, but otherwise, there's no reason AFAIK why it
> should not work on proprietary systems.
>> OP definetly uses MS Windows, because User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0
>> (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
I DO use windows. And I don't have clx installed. I also am not going to
install an XServer on windows. That whole idea seems to me
counter-intuitive/productive whatever.
I was looking more for a GUI solution which somehow uses SDK as a
backend. I have been looking around for a while and nowhere is this even
mentioned. I guess it is not feasable???
This (looking around and so on) have made me think. Is it not possible
to use some widget layout scheme (think Qt's XML-based .ui files) and
depending on the platform use the native widgets to create dialogs and
widgets that have the same functionality?
This would require a lot of glue code to be written for each platform,
but in essence you would have a cross-platform GUI library for lisp and
it would use native widgets. You could have gtl on unix'es, SDK on
windows and <insert right word here> for Mac OS X?
I am not sure if this pie-in-the-sky or skycastles (for example I am
wondering why Qt wouldn't have done this in the first place???), but
from my perspective: SDK is c-based right? so FFC should be able to use
it. I am sure it is possible to (with enough trouble) write a lisp
application which uses SDK in this manner?
Regards
Pieter Breed