[Gardeners] help wxCL

[Andy Cristina]

On 12/14/05, Brad Beveridge <brad.beveridge at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think I was mostly meaning "how would McClim suit a newbie as a GUI
> toolkit".  It does appear to be the most Lispy, because it has always
> been designed in CL, rather than wrapping another kit.  Not being
> cross platform mostly removes it from the running (at least initially)
> of being part of the Lispbox + GUI combo.
> The reason I am mostly interested is that I am writing a Vim like
> editor in CL (it's a learning exercise), and still trying out
> different frontends.
>
> Cheers
> Brad

In my opinion, CLIM in general is not suitable for a newbie to CL. 
The difference in feel from modern windowing systems like MS Windows,
KDE, Gnome, OS X is non trivial.

It can work on Windows though, I've gotten it to work in ACL by
modifying the clx path junk.  And of course running an X server.  For
a while I was working on a ggi backend that would be portable across
windowing systems, but that kinda got pushed back due to too much work
and school.

See http://andystuff.com.  Ugh, I need to update that.