Garnet
1. A graphical object editor and
Macintosh environment.
2. A user interface development environment for
Common Lisp and X11 from The Garnet project team.
It helps you create graphical, interactive user interfaces.
Version 2.2 includes the following: a custom
object-oriented programming system which uses a prototype-instance model. automatic
constraint maintenance allowing properties of objects to depend on properties of other objects and be automatically re-evaluated when the other objects change.
The constraints can be arbitrary Lisp expressions.
Built-in, high-level input event handling.
Support for gesture recognition.
Widgets for multi-font, multi-line, mouse-driven text editing.
Optional automatic layout of application data into lists, tables, trees or graphs. Automatic generation of
PostScript for printing.
Support for large-scale applications and data
visualisation.
Also supplied are: two complete widget sets, one with a
Motif look and feel implemented in
Lisp and one with a custom
look and feel.
Interactive design tools for creating parts of the interface without writing code: Gilt interface builder for creating dialog boxes.
Lapidary interactive tool for creating new
widgets and for drawing application-specific objects.
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spreadsheet system for specifying complex
constraints.
Not yet available: Jade automatic dialog box creation system. Marquise interactive tool for specifying behaviours.
(ftp://a.gp.cs.cmu.edu/usr/garnet/garnet).
