Common Lisp Interface Manager
The Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) is a Common Lisp-based programming interface for creating user interfaces, i.e., graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It is a fully object-oriented programming User Interface Management System,[1] using the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) 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' 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[4] – has been picking up steam lately, so we may be on the verge of a CLIM renaissance. From Practical Common Lisp[5]
The main development was CLIM 2.0, released in 1993.
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.[6] CLIM supports, like Dynamic Windows, so-called Presentations.[7][8][9]
CLIM is available for Allegro CL,[10] LispWorks,[11] Macintosh Common Lisp, and Symbolics Genera[12]
A free software implementation of CLIM is named McCLIM.[13] 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.
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
- ^ Möller, Ralf. "User Interface Management Systems: The CLIM Perspective".
- ^ "A Guided Tour of CLIM, Common Lisp Interface Manager" (PDF).
- ^ "Programming the User Interface, Genera 8.3" (PDF). Symbolics, Inc.
- ^ "Common-Lisp.net".
- ^ Seibel, Peter. "Conclusion: What's Next?". Practical Common Lisp.
- ^ Implementation Reflection in Silica, Ramana Rao, Xerox PARC
- ^ Presentation Based User Interfaces, MIT Technical Report: AITR-794, 1984, Eugene C. IV Ciccarelli
- ^ An information presentation system, Frank Zdybel, Norton R. Greenfeld, Martin D. Yonke
- ^ An Implementation of CLIM Presentation Types, Timothy Moore, 2008
- ^ CLIM 2 User Guide, version 2.2.2, Allegro Common Lisp 9.0, Franz, Inc.
- ^ Common Lisp Interface Manager User Guide, Version 2.0 LIspWorks 7.0 Manual
- ^ Common Lisp Interface Manager CLIM, Release 2.0, Symbolics Genera 8.3
- ^ A Free Implementation of CLIM, Robert Strandh, Timothy Moore, 2002
External links
- CLIM 2.0 Specification as multiple HTML pages; (McCLIM tarballs contain the specification's TeX sources)
- McCLIM Project Page
- Climacs Project Page
