[cells-devel] Which cellsy lisp GUI?

Frank Goenninger frgo at me.com
Wed Jun 24 07:26:22 UTC 2009


Am 23.06.2009 um 16:35 schrieb Kenneth Tilton:

>
>
> Tiarnan O'Corrain wrote:
>> Hi--
>>
>> a question for the cognoscenti: which of the various Cells-based GUI
>> toolkits is the easiest to pick up and use on an experimental  
>> project?
>> I know there's a Cells/GTK mix, a Cell/Tk one which was getting a  
>> lot of
>> discussion some time ago, and the sunlit uplands of Cello.
>>
>> Any recommendations?  I have a simple GUI client in mind, nothing  
>> too fancy.
>
> Tough call. Cells-gtk got a lot of work when Peter Hildebrandt jumped
> in, but it's not clear he got itall merged with the mainline so you
> might have to reach out to him for the latest/greatest.
>
> I like Tcl/Tk over GTk so I am partial to Celtk.
>
> Frank Goenninger has recently been cleaning up Cello so that might not
> be completely unapproachable. OpenGL is pretty, but you don't get the
> widget sets of Tk or Gtk.

And that work is currently on hold due to paying clients making me do  
something else... So: If anyone needs an easy one: Celtk, definitely.  
I still use it for quick hacks and it really works.

Cheers
    Frank

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