I'm looking for a Graphic User Interface toolkit that I can use with
common lisp so I can build common lisp applications that open in a
graphic window and operate with mouse clicks and keyboard taps rather
than being limited to terminal based Command Line Interface
applications. I thought I might find someone on the Maxima mailing list
that may know about such a toolkit. I'm especially interested in
open-source projects because I don't want to buy something just to
experiment.
I've tried "mcclim", but it seems rather dated and it's difficult to
find good examples of how to work with it. I've built a few working
trial applications in it, but it's slow going trying to find ways to
make it work.
I've looked at "ltk", but I haven't yet tried working with it because I
didn't like the way the demo looked.
I've looked at "CommonQt" but my Linux system won't install it because
of some dependency issues that may be resolved in the future.
I've looked at "*E*mbedded *Q*t *L*isp" but I can't get it to build on
my Linux system and the ECL that it wants didn't give correct answers to
some math problems that SBCL and CMUCL gave correct answers to.
There were some others that I discovered, but the last upgrade dates
were so old that I passed them by.
I'm somewhat fluent in java and I've looked at a few ways that java and
lisp might work together, but they were either not "common" lisp or
seemed to be slower in performance than I would prefer.
If there is a well-maintained Common Lisp GUI toolkit available that you
know about, please let me know.
Thanks,
Paul Bowyer