[mac-lisp-ide] Extending clotho

[mikel evins]

On Feb 6, 2004, at 8:37 PM, Randall Beer wrote:

>>> Might it be useful to think of a Cocoa application as a special kind  
>>> of Lisp system?  If we had a ProjectBuilder sort of GUI for working  
>>> with (ASDF or DEFSYSTEM) Lisp systems, then we could also use it to  
>>> work with Cocoa applications.  COCOA-APPLICATIONS could have  
>>> additional file types associated with them, and could also responsd  
>>> to a SAVE-COCOA-APPLICATION operation (perhaps by starting up  
>>> another OpenMCL with a command line option set to load in the  
>>> specified system and then SAVE-APPLICATION).
>>>
>>
>> Yah; this is a good idea.
>
> One other thing that might be interesting for someone to look into:
>
> F-Script (http://www.fscript.org/) allows a "live" interpreter to be  
> embedded inside Interface Builder, allowing interaction with UI  
> objects in Interface Builder (see  
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/07/12/embed_fscript.html? 
> page=3).
>
> I wonder if it might be possible to use similar tricks to get OpenMCL  
> talking directly to Interface Builder via a remote REPL, allowing a  
> very tight interaction between the two in building GUIs.
>

Cool idea. I note that F-Script sources are available to study. I'll  
look into it.