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The Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) is a Common Lisp-based programming interface for creating user interfaces — i.e., GUIs. It is a completely object-oriented User Interface Management System[1] and is based on the idea of stream input and output.[2] There are also facilities for output device independence. It is descended from the GUI system Dynamic Windows[3] of Symbolics's Lisp machines[4]

CLIM has been designed to be portable across different Common Lisp implementations and different window systems. It uses a reflective architecture for its window system interface.[5] CLIM supports, like Dynamic Windows, so-called Presentations.[6] [7] [8]

CLIM is available for Allegro CL[9], LispWorks[10], Macintosh Common Lisp, and Symbolics Genera[11]

McCLIM Lisp Listener

A free implementation of CLIM is called McCLIM[12] . McCLIM has several extensions to CLIM and has been used for several applications like Climacs, an Emacs-like editor. McCLIM also provides a mouse-sensitive Lisp Listener, a REPL for Common Lisp.

Applications using CLIM

  • BB1, Blackboard system
  • CLASP, analyze data from experiments by using graphics􏰄, statistical tests􏰄 and various kinds of data manipulation
  • CLIB, a prototype of an interface builder for CLIM
  • Direct Labor Management System, managing the automobile manufacturing process system at Ford's assembly plants
  • GenEd, An Editor with Generic Semantics for Formal Reasoning about Visual Notations
  • Grasper-CL, a graph management system
  • KONWERK, a domain independent configuration tool
  • Mirage, an editor for building gadget-oriented graphical user interfaces.
  • 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

References

  1. ^ User Interface Management Systems: The CLIM Perspective, Ralf Möller
  2. ^ A Guided Tour of CLIM, Common Lisp Interface Manager
  3. ^ Programming the User Interface, Genera 8.3. Symbolics, Inc.
  4. ^ "...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 --has been picking up steam lately, so we may be on the verge of a CLIM renaissance."[1] from "Conclusion: What's Next?" in Practical Common Lisp, by Peter Seibel.
  5. ^ Implementation Reflection in Silica, Ramana Rao, Xerox PARC
  6. ^ Presentation Based User Interfaces, MIT Technical Report: AITR-794, 1984, Eugene C. IV Ciccarelli
  7. ^ An information presentation system, Frank Zdybel, Norton R. Greenfeld, Martin D. Yonke
  8. ^ An Implementation of CLIM Presentation Types,Timothy Moore, 2008
  9. ^ CLIM 2 User Guide, version 2.2.2, Allegro Common Lisp 9.0, Franz, Inc.
  10. ^ Common Lisp Interface Manager User Guide, Version 2.0 LIspWorks 7.0 Manual
  11. ^ Common Lisp Interface Manager CLIM, Release 2.0, Symbolics Genera 8.3
  12. ^ A Free Implementation of CLIM, Robert Strandh, Timothy Moore, 2002
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