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From: toad@CS.CMU.EDU (Todd Kaufmann)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Common Lisp bindings for Motif
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Date: 4 Feb 91 20:38:09 GMT
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In-reply-to: wolpers@.ira.uka.de's message of 31 Jan 91 09:51:11 GMT

Try CLM, from GMD (they're your neighbors).

This includes a toolkit demon (in C) that takes a widget description (with
callbacks), and forks a new process for each Motif application (which can
be just a single menu, or whatever).  Lisp can then continue running, with
a separate lightweight lisp process handling the connection & callbacks.

I've built CLM 1.0 (with Motif 1.0) for Allegro/sun4.

The newer CLM 2.0 runs with Motif 1.1; I just ported it to CMU CL on RT (it
had no support for this lisp--I had to fake multiple processes, but it
works fine).  It does support Allegro, Lucid, and looks like Genera and
explorer too.

I'm sure this is much less painful than hacking C..


In North America & net environs, CLM-2.0beta is available from
expo.lcs.mit.edu.

Since you're in Germany, you should write the project leader for more info:

   Andreas B\"acker <baecker@gmdzi.gmd.de>


With CLM 1.0 was a package called Gina, which includes an interface builder
that spits out lisp code.  You use a drawing-program -like interface to
place buttons, selections, lists, etc.  A new version of Gina should be
available shortly.


   Todd Kaufmann
   Center for Machine Translation
   CMU     412/ 268-7130