LeAnthony Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for all who have helped, but let me say again that I'm looking for > some "hand holding" on getting a basic "Hello world" GUI application example > up and running. If someone had a movie on how it was done it would be a > great visual blueprint for new users for creating lisp application. > > My original task was getting this application to run on my windows machine > and then sending this simple example to a friend or installing it on a > machine a work. > > Here is how far I have gotten thanks to all those gardeners who have given > me tips. > > 1. Installing LISP > > I choose Lispbox. It contains: clisp/emacs/slime > > -Peter Seibel Lispbox setup is great > http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/lispbox/lispbox.html > > But I still had some issues with setup, but this thread at > www.codecomments.com helped: > http://www.codecomments.com/Lisp/message688829.html > > Task: Installing LISP(done) > > Sidenote: I do find emacs/slime/clisp buffer ackward and confusing for > writing code. I write most of my code in Lispworks( > http://www.lispworks.com/). Save the file and then use emacs/slime/clisp to > compile. Maybe because I have not completly grasp (got use to) the key > acrobatics. Maybe a nice windows IDE appeals so much to me because of my > old Visual Basic background. But the power of emacs/slime/clisp keeps me > trying. > > 2. Installing GUI library > > -I choose wxCL - a Widgets library > > -Thanks to Surendra Singhi I downloaded wxcl-1.1.1 - a common LISP Widgets > library. > download wxcl-1.1.1 from > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxcl/wxcl-1.1.1.zip?download
Please download wxCL 1.2.0. > I unzip it in the directory I have lispworks stuff in. > I used Surendra's wxCL quick start guide to do some surgery on the file > wxcl.lisp so that it would contain the relative paths so my specific > computer could see the widgets library. > > Then the easy part ended: the intricacies of asdf stopped my progress. > -I downloaded the widgets library and set the paths in the wxCL directory, > but how do I tell the asdf to look for this new folder for the widgets. > -Surendra's guide says that I can use the asdf to load the wxcl.asd. This > is very confusing. And Dr. Edmund Weitz( > http://www.weitz.de/asdf-install/) nice tutorial on how to use > asdf-install does not help. If you have asdf, and asdf-install set up and configured (follow the tutorial) then this line below is what you need to execute to install wxCL. (asdf-install:install "c:/wxcl-1.2.0.tar.gz") asdf-install only handles tar.gz files (I think it should be extended to handle zip as well). asdf-install is a very powerful tool to know about, and have properly set up. Say you want to install a library which parses xml files (say s-xml), the only thing which you need to do is (asdf-install:install :s-xml) Cheers. -- Surendra Singhi http://www.public.asu.edu/~sksinghi/index.html ,---- | "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." | -- Orwell, Animal Farm, 1945 `---- _______________________________________________ Gardeners mailing list [email protected] http://www.lispniks.com/mailman/listinfo/gardeners
