Re: How do lispers do their GUI programming anyway?

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:30:45 +0100, Ken Tilton <kennytilton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Peter Hildebrandt wrote:
I take it from yours and John's post that both Lispworks and Allegro have good solutions to offer,...

Allegro's GUI does not run on the Mac AFAIK. Linux? Maybe. They ported the IDE to Linux, anyway.

Alright, so this points me more and more to CAPI as the commercial fall back, in case cells-gtk will never work out :-)

so if I ever get tired of hacking cells-gtk, I know where to go.
For now I'm having way too much fun with a cells driven gui :-)

If you love CAPI you can always do a Cells-CAPI. I originally cellified the MCL GUI and played for a month with cellifying ACL's Common Graphics, just found it easier then to roll my own widgets.

True. But once I start cellifying CAPI, will that be any different from cellifying any other toolkit (like, say, gtk)?

Plus, I read in the CAPI doc pointed out by Edi that CAPI on linux uses Motif [1] -- meaning it is eighties-esque [2] (would you want to sell this?).

I think there is a point in working on cells-gtk, after all.

Peter



[1] "This means that if you display a CAPI button, a real Windows button is created for it when running on Windows, and a real Motif button when running on Motif, and a real Mac OS X button when running on Mac OS X"
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw50/CAPUG-W/html/capiuser-w-7.htm#pgfId-884184

[2] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/lw445/CAPUG-U/html/capiuser-u-25.htm#pgfId-884266

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