Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news.uni-c.dk!sunic!trane.uninett.no!eunet.no!nuug!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!marie!wpp From: wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Kai Petzke) Newsgroups: comp.lang.beta Subject: Re: BETA and X-Windows (was: Re: LISP and X-Windows) Date: 12 Sep 94 14:37:41 GMT Organization: Technical University Berlin, Germany Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <34pog5$lss@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <34t9k3$2g5@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: marie.physik.tu-berlin.de Keywords: beta, lisp, clim, clx, ew, clio, clue, garnet haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bruno Haible) writes: >In comp.lang.lisp, Norbert Widmann wrote: >> >> Isn't there an easy to use library using clx functions to >> open a window and draw some lines, circles, etc? Like back >> in those Basic or Logo days. And perhaps double-buffering for >> animations? There is. It is called tk and based upon the tcl interpreter. Tcl/tk is Freeware. >I can only keep wondering: How do you get Hello-World programs that small? The "Hello-World" program in tk: #! /usr/bin/wish button .h -text "Hello World!" -command "exit" pack .h And this even adds functionality to the hello world program - when you click on the "Hello World" button, the application will exit. >Are Mjolner's libraries especially "designed" for Hello-World programs? I do not think so. They are just designed to take most of the grief from you, and fill in reasonable defaults. So you can use your skills for writing the application, and don't need to spend all your energies on the user interface. Kai -- Kai Petzke | How fast can computers get? Technical University of Berlin | Berlin, Germany | Sol 9, of course, on Star Trek. wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de |