Common Lisp Interface Manager

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Common Lisp Interface Manager
Developer(s) International Lisp Associates, Symbolics Inc., Xerox Corporation, Franz Inc., LispWorks Ltd.
Initial release1993;29 years ago (1993)
Written in Common Lisp CLOS
Operating system Cross-platform
Platform IA-32, x86-64
Available inEnglish
Type Widget toolkit
License LGPL
Website common-lisp.net/project/mcclim

The Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) is a Common Lisp-based programming interface for creating user interfaces, i.e., graphical user interfaces (GUIs). It provides an application programming interface (API) to user interface facilities for the programming language Lisp. [1] It is a fully object-oriented programming user interface management system, [2] using the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS) and is based on the mechanism of stream input and output. [3] There are also facilities for output device independence. It is descended from the GUI system Dynamic Windows [4] of Symbolics' Lisp machines between 1988 and 1993.

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... you can check out Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM). A descendant of the Symbolics Lisp machines GUI framework, CLIM is powerful but complex. Although many commercial Common Lisp implementations actually support it, it doesn't seem to have seen a lot of use. But in the past couple years, an open-source implementation of CLIM, McCLIM – now hosted at Common-Lisp.net [5] – has been picking up steam lately, so we may be on the verge of a CLIM renaissance. – From Practical Common Lisp [6]

The main development was CLIM 2.0, released in 1993. It is free and open source software released under a GNU Library General Public License (LGPL).

CLIM has been designed to be portable across different Common Lisp implementations and different windowing systems. It uses a reflective architecture for its window system interface. [7] CLIM supports, like Dynamic Windows, so-called Presentations. [8] [9] [10]

CLIM is available for Allegro CL, [11] LispWorks, [12] Macintosh Common Lisp, and Symbolics Genera [13]

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McCLIM Lisp Listener

A free software implementation of CLIM is named McCLIM. [14] It has several extensions to CLIM and has been used for several applications like Climacs, an Emacs-like editor. It also provides a mouse-sensitive Lisp Listener, a read–eval–print loop (REPL) for Common Lisp. [15]

Applications using CLIM

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