[Openmcl-devel] Lisp User Interface LUI (was: Currency Converter Example)

[Brian Mastenbrook]

On Jan 7, 2009, at 8:00 PM, Brian Mastenbrook wrote:

> Alex,
>
> Can I suggest another idea? I'd love to see a cross-platform GUI  
> development system based on WebKit, with Lisp access to the DOM tree  
> and to DOM events. The resulting application need not necessarily  
> look like a web browser, and developing the application doesn't  
> imply having a web server as you could build up the DOM tree from  
> code at runtime. DOM events would be handled by Lisp, so there'd be  
> no need for JavaScript. WebKit is a great cross-platform display  
> engine for an application. It doesn't handle everything (sound,  
> video, and 3D animation or fast 2D animation being notable deficits,  
> though these are not out-of-the-box available in most other cross- 
> platform GUI solutions either). For widget interaction it'd be a  
> good start and very flexible as you can use CSS to style things  
> according to user preference or to fit in with an application theme.  
> To address the remaining issues there's no reason why a set of  
> bindings to OpenAL and OpenGL couldn't be included as complementary,  
> with the ability to embed an OpenGL context in the DOM tree.
>

It looks like what I was talking about actually exists at least in  
some form: http://titaniumapp.com/

I haven't had a chance yet to look at the API. It looks like it's  
focused on JavaScript but I could certainly imagine using the  
framework and building a Lisp interface to the DOM.
--
Brian Mastenbrook
brian at mastenbrook.net
http://brian.mastenbrook.net/

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