CLIM

The Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) is a Lisp-based programming interface specification that provides a layered set of portable facilities for constructing GUIs. These include basic windowing, input, output, and graphics services; stream-oriented input and output extended with facilities such as output recording, presentations, and context sensitive input; high level "formatted output" facilities; application building facilities; command processing; and a compositional toolkit similar to those found in the X world that supports look and feel independence.

McCLIM is a Free Software implementation of CLIM

Information about CLIM:

A Guided Tour of the Common Lisp Interface Manager published in 1991 by Lisp Pointers (alternate gzipped PostScript and PDF versions) (Wayback Machine copies: .ps.gz, .pdf)
Overview of CLIM abstraction layers by Duncan Rose (seems to be down, maybe it was this mail, but I can't find what the other URL refers to)
CLIM2 Specification
An annotatable version of the specification, hosted by Gilbert Baumann.
McCliki a Wiki for McClim
User's guide (from Xanalys)
Another User Guide, this one from Franz
CLIM Layout Protocol for Dummies by Gilbert Baumann (occasionally unavailable, try later)
User Interface Management Systems: The CLIM Perspective (used to be here)
Lisp Propulsion Laboratory log: Lisp blog with frequent CLIM content
A tutorial by Jason Kantz
A short but useful description of CLIM's command loop and interaction styles (comp.lang.lisp article)
New Architectural Models for Visibly Controllable Computing: The Relevance of Dynamic Object Oriented Architectures and Plan Based Computing Models (see section 7 "CLIM: Presentation Based Interfaces" on page 31)
Quicksilver: Text Interfaces Beyond Launching: blog entry by Brian Mastenbrook about text interfaces and CLIM (his site died, and he has resurrected it here ; the document can be found with the Wayback Machine Internet Archive )
CLIM in the CMU Lisp repository
clim-request@bbn.com, subscribe to the CLIM Mailing list. List archive:
- from 1990 to 1992
- from 1996
TUNES Project general CLIM principles overview. Also contains a link to Eugene Ciccarelli Ph.D. thesis's (which was the embryo for CLIM.)
Presentation-Based User Interfaces, MIT AI TR 794 (presents -- no pun intended -- the concepts on which CLIM is based)
CLIM history thread in comp.lang.lisp (January 2005)
CLIM Walkthrough
CLIM2WWW is a project where CLIM applications were retrofitted to work on the web.

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