david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth) (03/10/90)
We've got some people who want to port their application from Symbolics to workstations running X (initially, Suns). They like good Lisp environments, of course. Any good Lisp environments which run within X, especially X11R4 from MIT? Anybody have a LISP application with a Motif user interface? ---------------------------------------------------------- David Smyth david@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov Senior Software Engineer, seismo!cit-vax!jpl-devvax!david X and Object Guru. (818)354-6344 JPL, M/S 301-260, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 ----------------------------------------------------------
sandell@ferret.Berkeley.EDU (Greg Sandell) (03/11/90)
Take a look at CLX which now comes with every X11 release, I beleive. This is the standard Lisp to X-toolkit interface. It offers very few creature comforts, however, so you have to chrn out tons of code to make even tiny applications. We have been playing with various higher-level packages which use CLX are their lower-level language. Lately we have been exploring an item from CMU called "Garnet" which we find very impressive. It's object oriented and comes with lots and lots of ready-made gadgets (buttons, sliders, gauges, etc.). From what I understand, it's shareware, but you have to get a license for it. Send email to bam@a.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Brad Myers) for more information. **************************************************************** * Greg Sandell (sandell@ils.nwu.edu) * * Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University * ****************************************************************
net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann) (03/13/90)
In article <7368@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> david@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (David E. Smyth) writes: > Any good Lisp environments which run within X, especially X11R4 from MIT? Although Scheme != Lisp, you may want to look into the recently posted Scheme implementation named Elk; a Motif extension for Elk is available as a separate module. Elk is mainly intended to be used as a general extension language (to be linked into an application written in C or C++), but it is also useful as a stand-alone implementation of Scheme. I currently know of at least two large applications (an ODA-based document processing system and a multi-media electronic conferencing system) that use Elk together with the Motif extension as their user-interface implementation language. -- Oliver Laumann, Technical University of Berlin, Germany. pyramid!tub!net net@TUB.BITNET net@tub.cs.tu-berlin.de