5.14.4.2 McCLIM

“An implementation of the Common Lisp Interface Manager, version II”

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• A Free Implementation of CLIM

McCLIM is Mike McDonald’s Free and portable implementation of CLIM, the Common Lisp ueber-GUI toolkit.

The current release is 0.9.7 (Imbolc), released 2018-02-16. Using Quicklisp is a preferred way to run McCLIM.

McCLIM is available on Quicklisp. McCLIM can be installed by entering the following in your REPL:

(ql:quickload "mcclim")

To see if McCLIM works on your host you may load the system with examples and run the example browser application:

(ql:quickload "clim-examples")   ; Load the system with examples.
(clim-demo:demodemo)             ; Run the example browser application.

1. An Example
   1. Quickload McCLIM by running (ql:quickload "mcclim").
   2. Put the following code in a file example.lisp.

   (in-package :common-lisp-user)
   
   (defpackage "APP"
     (:use :clim :clim-lisp)
     (:export "APP-MAIN"))
   
   (in-package :app)
   
   ;;; Define a application-frame (a.k.a. application window in traditional GUI's).
   
   (define-application-frame superapp ()
     ()
     ;; :panes section describes different parts of the
     ;; application-frame. This application has only one pane.
     (:panes
      (int :interactor :height 400 :width 600))
   
     ;; :layouts section describes how the panes are layed out.
     ;; This application has one layout named "default" which has a single pane.
     (:layouts
      (default int)))
   
   ;;; Following function launches an instance of "superapp" application-frame.
   (defun app-main ()
     (run-frame-top-level (make-application-frame 'superapp)))
   

   3. Load the file and run:

      (app:app-main)