wolpers@.ira.uka.de (Andreas Wolpers) (01/31/91)
After bothering several individuals (without much success) it seems that this is the last chance to prevent us from a lot of boring work. Does anybody have Common Lisp bindings for Motif, either finished or under development? Andreas Wolpers E-Mail: wolpers@ira.uka.de phone: 49-721-608-3977 fax: 49-721-697760 Andreas Wolpers E-Mail: wolpers@ira.uka.de phone: 49-721-608-3977
tjhorton@vis.toronto.edu ("Timothy J. Horton") (02/02/91)
wolpers@.ira.uka.de (Andreas Wolpers) writes: >After bothering several individuals (without much success) it seems that this >is the last chance to prevent us from a lot of boring work. > >Does anybody have Common Lisp bindings for Motif, >either finished or under development? The answer is "clx" -- common lisp x bindings -- which have been around for a long time (I used them over a year ago). From the man page for Allegro common lisp: NAME cl - Allegro Common Lisp SYNOPSIS cl [ options ... ] DESCRIPTION Allegro CL is a complete implementation of Common Lisp, as specified in Common Lisp: the Language . The Allegro CL sys- tem consists of an interpreter, an optimizing compiler, and a set of functions. Associated Programs ... cw is a version of lisp containing Allegro Common Windows, a lisp-based, high level window system, under the X Window System using CLX. clx is a low-level interface to the X Window system (basi- cally a lisp version of Xlib). Source is in /cs/src/cl/clx. composer contains CLX. composer is a version of lisp containing Allegro Composer, a window-based program development environment. Composer has a "windowized" inspector, debugger, profiler, and a status display of lisp processes. Composer is built on Common Windows. clue is a portable system for user interface programming in Common Lisp. CLUE, which is based on the X Window Sys- tem and the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), extends the CLX interface to provide an architectural model for building interactive Lisp applications. Modelled on the Xtk toolkit library, CLUE could be described as a translation of the Xt "intrinsics" into the domain of Common Lisp and CLOS. Source and documentation are in /cs/src/cl/clue. ... [remainder deleted] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Horton, Unix Software Consulting tjhorton@vis.toronto.edu
toad@CS.CMU.EDU (Todd Kaufmann) (02/05/91)
Try CLM, from GMD (they're your neighbors). This includes a toolkit demon (in C) that takes a widget description (with callbacks), and forks a new process for each Motif application (which can be just a single menu, or whatever). Lisp can then continue running, with a separate lightweight lisp process handling the connection & callbacks. I've built CLM 1.0 (with Motif 1.0) for Allegro/sun4. The newer CLM 2.0 runs with Motif 1.1; I just ported it to CMU CL on RT (it had no support for this lisp--I had to fake multiple processes, but it works fine). It does support Allegro, Lucid, and looks like Genera and explorer too. I'm sure this is much less painful than hacking C.. In North America & net environs, CLM-2.0beta is available from expo.lcs.mit.edu. Since you're in Germany, you should write the project leader for more info: Andreas B\"acker <baecker@gmdzi.gmd.de> With CLM 1.0 was a package called Gina, which includes an interface builder that spits out lisp code. You use a drawing-program -like interface to place buttons, selections, lists, etc. A new version of Gina should be available shortly. Todd Kaufmann Center for Machine Translation CMU 412/ 268-7130