How to make a GUI using Lisp: DrScheme or Common Lisp

Question

Or the basic work need to do to create a GUI. I know the basic Components of GUI, but where to begin. I\'m just a self-study person and I\'m reading \"How to Design Program\

Answer 1

• If you want to just make the simple GUI in Common Lisp, your best choice, in my opinion, is LTK, which is a high-level interface to Tcl/Tk scripting library
• There are plenty of other choices, but they require some vision of what you are trying to achieve. If you want to use one of the wide-spread GUI toolkits (GTK or Qt) there are CL-GTK2 and CommonQt. But you have to first of all understand well, how these toolkits work
• LispWorks provides a very sophisticated GUI-builder library CAPI, which is cross-platform
• On the Mac ClozureCL has good Cocoa bindings
• Finally there's a full-blown native CL solution for GUI - McCLIM - which is very flexible, but pretty involved

Also, if you want to understand GUI and study it from the theoretical point of view, you should learn about various GUI-patterns, such as MVC, Model2, MVVM etc. I don't know about any GUI-framework in Lisp, implementing such patterns, so doing such a project may be an interesting learning experience...