Xref: utzoo comp.windows.x:15717 comp.lang.lisp:2547 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!atanasoff.rutgers.edu!lou From: lou@atanasoff.rutgers.edu (Lou Steinberg) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Lisp/X-Windows/C query *** SUMMARY OF REPLIES *** Message-ID: Date: 7 Dec 89 16:39:43 GMT References: <1882@accuvax.nwu.edu> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 24 Cc: lou In article <1882@accuvax.nwu.edu> sandell@ferret.ils.nwu.edu (Greg Sandell) writes: > Allegro's Common Windows appears to be a nice system, but it will not run > with the twm window manager, and such an attempt crashes the system. Not in our experience. We use TWM (currently version 5.31 4/26/89) and Allegro's Common Windows (3.0.1.beta.sun4.1), and have not seen any such fatal interaction. (There are some minor problems, e.g. scroll bars in the wrong place when you move a window, but this *is* really a beta release of the windowing stuff, and I understand a "real" release is to be shipped in a few days.) Common Windows is a more-or-less window-system-independent interface from LISP. E.g. I believe there have been implementations for Sunview as well as X. It has much of the flavor of the Interlisp-D windowing functions. At one point there was some talk of making this the standard common lisp windowing interface (hence the name), but I don't know what has happened to that. -- Lou Steinberg uucp: {pretty much any major site}!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!lou arpa: lou@cs.rutgers.edu