Re: How do lispers do their GUI programming anyway?

Leandro Rios <leandroprogramador@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Peter Hildebrandt escribió:


So far I have been using cells-gtk (and put together two patches),
but I wonder whether I should rather invest time and effort into a
different project. I believe there must be other people out there
who need a lisp-like, dynamic, interactive, yet
modern/native-looking GUI.


Did you try clg? It's a "closified" binding to gtk, and it's being
actively maintained.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/clg

Leandro

I'm using clg for a project I've just started. It's fairly intuitive
when you've got the gtk documentation in front of you and it supports
cairo, which is really very nice if you want to do your own drawing /
widgets.

On the other hand, cells-gtk seems to be better at unifying callbacks /
observer patterns from the GTK to your own model. I'm tempted to try it,
even though it looks like I'd have to figure out how it actually works
by experimenting, since the documentation seems to be very sparse.

Joost.
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