I just saw the announcement of this list, and some discussion from earlier about GUI toolkits. I'd like to recommend to any Lisp newbies who are interested in portable GUIs to look at Ltk. The goal of the project was to be portable to all major operating systems and all major Common Lisps, and to make it simple to write conventional GUIs. That goal has been met for around a year now: all Tk functionality works correctly. If you find any exceptions to that statement, you've found a bug that Peter Herth would like to know about. We use it in production for our GUI needs at work.
The current work going into Ltk is on finishing touches trying to make things even more easy for newbies out-of-the-box, and higher-level features (eg, graphical debugger, a tree-navigation widget similar to the Mac OS X Finder[*], and a tooltip api). The Ltk developers would be very interested in hearing more newbie reactions, and in fixing any shortcommings you might find. That includes any issues with the documentation (it does have a users manual). You can install it with asdf-install, or download it from the Ltk website: http://www.peter-herth.de/ltk/ The mailing list is here: http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ltk-user [*] If you don't have a Mac, I mean something that looks like this: http://caminol10n.mozdev.org/appleglot-how-to/finder-glot-environment.png -- /|_ .-----------------------. ,' .\ / | Free Mumia Abu-Jamal! | ,--' _,' | Abolish the racist | / / | death penalty! | ( -. | `-----------------------' | ) | (`-. '--.) `. )----' _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
