Heh - maddeningly enough, it seems to be the rule that the most interesting languages have the least support. Lisp had the misfortune to be just sufficiently unpopular in the early to mid ninties that it never got the plethera of graphics libraries that other languages got, and that had proved difficult to remedy. Doing basic interfacing to library graphics is doable, but doing a "universal" solution is very hard. And nowadays a universal soultion isn't enough - has to look good and include a lot of functionality.
McCLIM is basically the last best hope for Lisp GUI programming to take off in a major way (TRUE lisp graphics programming, where the interface logic is defined in lisp without being closely tied to any single non-lisp toolkit). I'd like to help push that forward but it's not a simple task and I need both more knowledge and time. Being an eternal optimist about such things I'm hoping it will eventually come to pass :-). But this is exciting for two reasons - the Windows graphics yes, but SBCL was never designed to run on Windows at all and the port is highly non-trivial. So its having progressed that far is quite exciting. That was the "wow" part ;-). Cheers, Cliff --- "Page, Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday, December 14, 2005 5:42 PM C Y wrote: > > > > WOW. I did not know things had progressed that far. > > Exciting times. > > > > --- root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://www.dridus.com/~nyef/messagebox-goodness.png > > > > > > sbcl on windows popping up a native windows messagebox > > > > > Lisp pop-ups on Windows is exciting? > > ... oh, I am sooo depressed ... > > ;) > > Bill Page. > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer