Common Lisp Interface Manager
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The Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) is a Common Lisp-based programming interface for creating user interfaces, i.e., graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It provides an application programming interface (API) to user interface facilities for the programming language Lisp.[1] It is a fully object-oriented programming user interface management system,[2] using the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) and is based on the mechanism of stream input and output.[3] There are also facilities for output device independence. It is descended from the GUI system Dynamic Windows[4] of Symbolics' Lisp machines between 1988 and 1993.
... you can check out Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM). A descendant of the Symbolics Lisp machines GUI framework, CLIM is powerful but complex. Although many commercial Common Lisp implementations actually support it, it doesn't seem to have seen a lot of use. But in the past couple years, an open-source implementation of CLIM, McCLIM – now hosted at Common-Lisp.net[5] – has been picking up steam lately, so we may be on the verge of a CLIM renaissance. – From Practical Common Lisp[6]
| Developer(s) | International Lisp Associates, Symbolics Inc., Xerox Corporation, Franz Inc., LispWorks Ltd. |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 1993 |
| Written in | Common Lisp CLOS |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Platform | IA-32, x86-64 |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Widget toolkit |
| License | LGPL |
| Website | common-lisp |
The main development was CLIM 2.0, released in 1993. It is free and open source software released under a GNU Library General Public License (LGPL).
CLIM has been designed to be portable across different Common Lisp implementations and different windowing systems. It uses a reflective architecture for its window system interface.[7] CLIM supports, like Dynamic Windows, so-called Presentations.[8][9][10]
CLIM is available for Allegro CL,[11] LispWorks,[12] Macintosh Common Lisp, and Symbolics Genera[13]
A free software implementation of CLIM is named McCLIM.[14] It has several extensions to CLIM and has been used for several applications like Climacs, an Emacs-like editor. It also provides a mouse-sensitive Lisp Listener, a read–eval–print loop (REPL) for Common Lisp.[15]
Applications using CLIM
- BB1 Blackboard Kernel (BBK)[16]
- CLASP: analyzes data from experiments via graphics, statistical tests, and various data manipulation types[17]
- CLIB, a prototype interface builder for CLIM[18]
- Direct Labor Management System (DLMS), manages automobile manufacturing process system at Ford assembly plants[19]
- DLMAPS, an ontology-based spatial query language and environment, a predecessor of GeoSPARQL[20]
- GenEd, editor with generic semantics for formal reasoning on visual notations[21]
- Grasper-CL, graph management system[22]
- KONWERK, a domain independent configuration tool
- Mirage, an editor for building gadget-oriented graphical user interfaces.
- Pathway Tools, a comprehensive bioinformatics software package that spans genome data management, systems biology, and omics data analysis.[23]
- Petri nets, a Petri net editor and simulator
- SENEX, a CLOS/CLIM application for molecular pathology
- SPIKE, scheduling system for the Hubble space telescope observations. Also used for ASTRO-D, an X-Ray observation astronomy mission
- SpyGlass, an analysis environment for viewing packet traces, from BBN.
- VITRA Workbench, an integrated vision and natural language processing system
- VISCO, a visual spatial query language[24]
- Climaxima, a Maxima (software) graphical front-end.
- Tangram, a Tangram Puzzle Solver capable of solving arbitrary geometric tiling problems.
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