cearl@aristotle.ils.nwu.edu (Charles Earl) (06/14/90)
We will be developing multimedia (e.g. video, animation, digitized images,etc.) based educational software using ibm RS/6000s and 386's as development platforms -- UNIX/X environment. Initial development will most likely occur on the RISC machines but the 386's are intended target (we will actually be using 386s for some months until RISCs arrive). We have been a MacII shop, doing most development in Mac Common Lisp. I am trying to decide on an appropriate development environment and would like feedback from the experts as to appropriate X toolkits. We would like to use Lisp/Scheme, but Smalltalk, C++, C, etc. would be ok if no other options for language interfaces exist. The environment should: (1) Support development of fast, attractive animation -- that is, we would want fairly rich graphics libraries/packages. (2) Allow development of multimedia applications, especially those which would incorporate video. (3) Allow rapid development of Mac-like dialog based applications. Any ideas, comments appreciated