A guided tour of the Common Lisp interface manager

Abstract

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.

Esa

“…Customization of the standard behaviour of CLIM components is likewise straightforward, using standard CLOS means such as subclassing and auxiliary methods on protocol generic functions as in [1]. For more information on CLIM, see for example [2,4,5].…”

Unifying software elements with LISP-based object-oriented technology

“…See[5] or[7] for an introduction to CLIM 3 A schema is a coherent collection of classes optionally connected by relationships.…”