Re: How do lispers do their GUI programming anyway? (was Re: Curses alternative for Lisp?)

On Dec 31, 11:57 am, "Peter Hildebrandt" <peter.hildebra...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

(4) A lispy GUI wrapper (cells-gtk, celtk, cello, LTK)

I use LTK for my Lisp GUI needs, personally. When I use a GUI toolkit
in Lisp, it is usually to create a simple tool for end-users to do
something well, er.. dumb. I could easily do most of this in bash with
xdialog. I use Lisp since its easier for me to figure out what I was
doing 3 months later (no pipe stream filters to grok). I don't deploy
such tools on Linux, so the Tk look on Linux isn't an issue - it looks
just fine on Mac and Windows.

However, there is a tool called gtk-server that is quite nice. It is,
as its name implies, a server process which accepts connections over
TCP/IP. You feed it ASCII, and it draws widgets. It can also be used
over a pipe. I have some partial code to use gtk-server from CMUCL
somewhere. I can try to dig it up if you'd like to take a look, but it
was quite easy to do. I abandoned it when I found LTK.

-M
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