On 1/12/06, Frank Buss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For my part I'm hoping to put together CFFI bindings for SDL that will enable most lisps to use the SDL library. For those that don't know of it, it's a very lightweight cross platform library for doing 2d graphics, sound, input and a couple of other components. It works well with opengl, and runs on linux, mac and windows.
So by having wrappers for SDL we get a lot of functionality. It would be something that would sit well as a downloadable extension to lisp in a box. I'd be happy to look into doing that, and setting up some basic game and graphics stuff to get people started.
The problem with all this is it doesn't sit very well with the GUI parts of this project.
Justin Heyes-Jones
Brad Beveridge wrote:
> I like the concept a lot. From reading the page, I think that you are
> trying to create a Lisp-in-a-box style thing, with emphasis on
> cross-platform support and GUI programming. Am I right?
This can be used as the base for something like Lisp-in-a-box, but the main
idea is to provide an environment to deliver "normal" applications for
end-users, e.g. something like a game, an office suite or a CAD program.
And you are right, the emphasis is GUI and cross-platform, because for
server-side applications, like webapplications, the setup process is not
important, it is mostly Unix and there are already good solutions.
> I think that
> this project is well on the way to being officially Planted by the
> Green Thumbs, but I would personally like to see a few more concrete
> ideas first please.
For me the tasks on http://wiki.alu.org/Application_Builder are very
concrete, but perhaps it is more in my vision than I've written and other
people thinks very different about how it looks like in the end, but that's
not bad, if it will be usable for all :-)
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Frank Buss, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.frank-buss.de, http://www.it4-systems.de
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For my part I'm hoping to put together CFFI bindings for SDL that will enable most lisps to use the SDL library. For those that don't know of it, it's a very lightweight cross platform library for doing 2d graphics, sound, input and a couple of other components. It works well with opengl, and runs on linux, mac and windows.
So by having wrappers for SDL we get a lot of functionality. It would be something that would sit well as a downloadable extension to lisp in a box. I'd be happy to look into doing that, and setting up some basic game and graphics stuff to get people started.
The problem with all this is it doesn't sit very well with the GUI parts of this project.
Justin Heyes-Jones
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