[Gardeners] CLisp GUI application creation "hand holding"

[LeAnthony Mathews]

Thanks for all who have helped, but let me say again that I'm looking for
some "hand holding" on getting a basic "Hello world" GUI application example
up and running.  If someone had a movie on how it was done it would be a
great visual blueprint for new users for creating lisp application.

My original task was getting this application to run on my windows machine
and then sending this simple example to a friend or installing it on a
machine a work.

Here is how far I have gotten thanks to all those gardeners who have given
me tips.

1. Installing LISP

I choose Lispbox.  It contains: clisp/emacs/slime

-Peter Seibel Lispbox setup is great
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/lispbox/lispbox.html

But I still had some issues with setup, but this thread at
www.codecomments.com helped:
http://www.codecomments.com/Lisp/message688829.html

Task: Installing LISP(done)

  Sidenote:  I do find emacs/slime/clisp buffer ackward and confusing for
writing code.   I write most of my code in Lispworks(
http://www.lispworks.com/). Save the file and then use emacs/slime/clisp to
compile.  Maybe because I have not completly grasp (got use to) the key
acrobatics.  Maybe a nice windows IDE appeals so much to me because of my
old Visual Basic background.  But the power of emacs/slime/clisp keeps me
trying.

2.  Installing GUI library

-I choose wxCL - a Widgets library

-Thanks to Surendra Singhi I downloaded wxcl-1.1.1 - a common LISP Widgets
library.
download wxcl-1.1.1 from
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxcl/wxcl-1.1.1.zip?download
I unzip it in the directory I have lispworks stuff in.
I used Surendra's wxCL quick start guide to do some surgery on the file
wxcl.lisp so that it would contain the relative paths so my specific
computer could see the widgets library.

Then the easy part ended:  the intricacies of asdf stopped my progress.
-I downloaded the widgets library and set the paths in the wxCL directory,
but how do I tell the asdf to look for this new folder for the widgets.
-Surendra's guide says that I can use the asdf to load the wxcl.asd.  This
is very confusing.  And Dr. Edmund Weitz(
http://www.weitz.de/asdf-install/) nice tutorial on how to use
asdf-install does not help.
-Is there a config file I am missing that slime loads(I do see asdf is it is
starting up)?
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