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From: cox@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Charles A. Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
Subject: Re: grapher package written in CLX?
Summary: Allegro Composer description
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Date: 27 Mar 89 05:11:32 GMT
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In article <478@laic.UUCP> ik@nova.laic.uucp (Ik Su Yoo) writes:
>In article <8903151317.AA19193@cpswh.cps.msu.edu>, sticklen@CPSWH.CPS.MSU.EDU (Jon Sticklen) writes:
>> but in FRANZ CL (Allegro) there will soon be a grapher like module
>> that will be part of the new "Composer" package on Allegro. (Composer
>> will be a development environment - FRANZ is shipping it now. but the
>> grapher is only at early beta now. if you twisted someone's arm
>> at FRANZ...)
>
>Can someone who used Franz provide more insight on this "Composer" package?
>My major concern is whether Composer is written using the CLX interface to
>the X windows. Thanks a great deal.

The Franz Inc. Composer is a window environment for Allegro CL Common
Lisp (the UNIX version, not the MAC-OS MAC-II version which has its
own windowized environment).  Composer is implemented on top of the X
Window System (X11R3) using CLX.  It includes a debugger, inspector,
and a graphical statistical profiler.

The graphical part of the profiler is written using an internally
developed grapher package which will be fully supported and documented
in the following Composer release (Composer II).

For more information, you can contact Franz Inc. at
"info%franz.uucp@Berkeley.EDU" or (415) 548-3600.

	Charley Cox
	cox@renoir.Berkeley.EDU