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LISP2WISH: Simple demo of synchronous communication between
Lisp and Tcl/Tk
lang/lisp/gui/lsp2wish/
LISP2WISH is a very simple demonstration of how to connect and
communicate SYNCHRONOUSLY between a lisp process and a C process
running a Tcl/Tk executable. The demo uses the vanilla 'wish'
executable that is included with the Tcl/Tk distribution.
Tcl/Tk is a very flexible system for building Graphical User
Interfaces (GUIs), with the look-and-feel of Motif. One writes
scripts in a high-level, C-like language, and an interpreter evaluates
the commands and passes execution either to a built-in function (and
there are many), or to your own C routines. Tcl/Tk is becoming
increasingly popular because of its ease of use, and because it is
freely distributable (even commercially, I believe). For more
information on Tcl/Tk, look on the USENET newsgroup comp.lang.tcl, or
get the distribution from the archive (listed below) or
ftp.cs.berkeley.edu. The Tcl/Tk archive also has many
user-contributed extensions which make Tcl/Tk even more desirable.
Tcl/Tk was originally written by Dr. John Ousterhout, at Berkeley.
LISP2WISH lets you make a window/menu/drawing interface for your lisp
routines, where you can take advantage of all the stuff written for
Tcl/Tk (and build your own!).
Origin:
harbor.ecn.purdue.edu:/pub/tcl/lisp2wish6.tar.gz (Tcl/Tk archive)
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~kaye/home.html (Author's WWW)
ftp.cis.upenn.edu:/pub/kaye/lisp2wish6.tar.Z (Author's FTP)
Version: 6 (22-JUL-94)
Requires: Common Lisp, Tcl/Tk, X-Windows, awk
Ports: LISP2WISH has only been tested under X-Windows and Lucid
Common Lisp 4.0 and 4.1, but but should work on other
platforms that support Lucid (or Allegro) and Tcl/Tk.
Copying: Use, copying, modification, and distribution permitted.
CD-ROM: Prime Time Freeware for AI, Issue 1-1
Author(s): Jonathan Kaye
Keywords:
Authors!Kaye, GUI!Lisp, Graphics, HCI, LISP2WISH, LISP2WISH,
Lisp!Code, Tcl, Tk
References: ?
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