The Common Lisp Interface Manager (CLIM) is a powerful Lisp-based system that provides a layered set of facilities for building user interfaces. These facilities include a portable layer called Silica that includes basic windowing, input, output services, and mechanisms for constructing window types and user interface components; stream-oriented input and output facilities extended with presentations and context sensitive input similar to the work pioneered in the Genera UI system; and a gadget-oriented toolkit similar to those found in the X world extended with support for look and feel adaptiveness. In this article, we present an overview of CLIM's broad range of functionality and present a series of examples that illustrates CLIM's power.
We describe a system for associating the user interface entities of an application with their underlying semantic objects. The associations are classified by arranging the user interface entities in a type lattice in an object-oriented fashion. The interactive behavior of the application is described by defining application operations in terms of methods on the types in the type lattice, This scheme replaces the usual "active region" interaction model, and allows application interfaces to be specified directly in terms of the objects of the application itself. We discuss the benefits of this system and some of the difficulties we encountered.
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