On 29 Dec 2005, at 22:43, C Y wrote: > --- Frank Buss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think instead of using wxCL it would be interesting to use >> the low-level Windows GDI functions and built some framework >> on top of this. > > Agreed. Dan Stanger has the beginnings of code to do this in Clisp, I > think called gdi. I think the correct long term course for "pure" > lisp > graphics is to create cl-gdi which will be to Windows what CLX is to > X11.
But this would be non-portable and work against sharing tutorials and code. Let's not have a ghetto of Windows Lisp GUI programmers and a Ghetto of MacOS X GUI programmers and a ghetto of UNIX programmers unable to help each other. No walled gardens, just one big garden. One of the major complaints against the various common lisps is their non-portability, and adding platform non-portability to this is a bad idea for getting more people started with Lisp (not necessarily for industrial strength use of Lisp) IMO. > There is a partial > backend for McCLIM called Beagle which tries to interface with Cocoa > for MacOSX, but IIRC ran into some fairly fundamental conflicts. > Perhaps adapting it to Carbon would meet with more success. I started the MacOSX DUIM in Carbon because of the comments the Apple Java team made about writing AWT in Carbon rather than Cocoa. But AWT later switched to Cocoa. Do you have a reference for what the conflicts were? - Rob. _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
