GTK binding

This page lists Common Lisp bindings for the GTK graphics toolkit.

cells-gtk - cells-gtk is a complete, portable framework for Common Lisp GUI development via GTK+2 with Cells InsideTM, licensed under the Lisp LGPL
cl-gtk - Gilbert Baumann's GTK bindings for Common Lisp (for CMUCL, CLISP and Allegro CL)
cl-gtk2 - CL-GTK2 is a Common Lisp GUI library that provides access to the Gtk+ cross-platform GUI library in idiomatic Lisp style
cl-gtk2-cairo - cl-gtk2-cairo is an ASDF system that is a part of cl-gtk2
cl-gtk2-gdk - cl-gtk2-gdk is an ASDF system that is a part of cl-gtk2
cl-gtk2-glib - cl-gtk2-glib is an ASDF system that is a part of cl-gtk2
cl-gtk2-gtk - cl-gtk2-gtk is an ASDF system that is a part of cl-gtk2
cl-gtk2-gtkglext - cl-gtk2-gtkglext is an ASDF system that is a part of cl-gtk2
cl-gtk2-pango - cl-gtk2-pango is an ASDF system that is a part of cl-gtk2
clg - Espen Johnsen?'s GTK bindings for CMUCL, SBCL and CLISP
gtk-server - gtk-server is a scriptable interface to GTK+
lambda-gtk - Lambda-GTK is an apparently complete set of GTK+2 bindings, autogenerated by FFIGEN
lgtk - Lgtk is Common Lisp GTK binding; not available for CLISP

A few comments by JCh:

cl-gtk2 seems to be latest and active as of Sept 2009.
clg is possibly the nicest of the lot. It's complete (autogenerated) and very lisp-ish (GTK classes are represented as instances of a subclass of standard-class, you just make-instance them); unfortunately, it currently only works with recent versions of CMUCL and SBCL;
lambda-gtk is complete (autogenerated), but not very lispish; GTK objects are just untyped alien pointers (the Lisp incarnation of C's void*);
lgtk is lispish enough, but incomplete (it's hand-written);
I haven't looked at cl-gtk.

Another note: Clozure CL ships with gtk2 support in the form of a simple autogenerated binding (through the same ffi interface used for all native Clozure bindings). It's not lispy at all, but it works (you might want/have to re-run the binding generation script though). It should also bring in support for cairo, pango, etc.

Pages in this topic: cells-gtk cl-gtk cl-gtk2 cl-gtk2-cairo cl-gtk2-gdk cl-gtk2-glib cl-gtk2-gtk cl-gtk2-gtkglext cl-gtk2-pango clg gtk-server lambda-gtk lgtk

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