[cells-devel] How to get started?

[Ken Tilton]

Hey, thx everyone for pitching in. I spend most of my time as ktilton
@ mcna dot net (and the google "easy account switching" kinda did not
work so well when I tried it, tho it seems they are working on it).

I agree with all said and would add only that the regression test
suite has good examples.

-kt

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Peter Hildebrandt
<peter.hildebrandt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
> cells-gtk and celtk are probably the best choices for desktop GUI
> toolkits.  You probably want to look at both to decide which you
> prefer.  (full disclaimer, I did a bit of work on cells-gtk).
> Cells-gtk has the advantage of looking native on Ubuntu/Gnome (and is
> somewhat portable to windows).  Celtk is more cross-platform and has a
> lower threshold if you are familiar with Tk.
>
> you can download the latest fork of cells-gtk3 here:
> https://github.com/Ramarren/cells-gtk3
>
> Let me know if you have questions.
> Peter
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Frank Goenninger <frgo at me.com> wrote:
>> Hi Jim,
>>
>> Am 17.04.2012 um 19:18 schrieb Jim Prewett:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I've recently stumbled across Cells and it sounds pretty interesting.  I'm
>>> wondering how to get started learning about how to use Cells.  In general,
>>> I've got several Lisp projects that could use a GUI and the various
>>> Cells-based GUI projects look interesting to me.  I think I should
>>> probably learn how to use Cells (at some basic level) before trying to
>>> dive into one of the GUI packages.  Is there a Cells-based GUI package
>>> that is currently preferred?
>>
>> Celtk is running fine here, also Cells-Gtk is still in use AFAIK.
>>
>>> In general, I learn best by first following a simple example, then
>>> modifying it to do my bidding.  Can someone show me how to get started?
>>
>> https://github.com/kennytilton/cells/wiki
>>
>>> I'm also wondering if someone can explain the difference between DEFMODEL
>>> and DEFMD to me.
>>
>> defmodel is like defclass - with just a few more slot options to declare a cell.
>> defmd is a convenience macro that helps in writing less boilerplate code:
>>
>> With defmodel a cellsified class might look like this:
>>
>> (DEFMODEL CAT (MODEL)
>>                 ((NAME :INITFORM NIL :INITARG :NAME)
>>                  (FUR-COLOR :INITFORM NIL :INITARG :FUR-COLOR)
>>                  (TITLE :INITARG :TITLE :INITFORM
>>                         (C? (UTILS-KT::CONC$ (^NAME) " with " (^FUR-COLOR) " fur."))))
>>                 (:DEFAULT-INITARGS
>>                       :NAME (C-IN "")
>>                       :FUR-COLOR (C-IN "black")))
>>
>> the same could be written as:
>>
>> (defmd cat ()
>>              name
>>              fur-color
>>              (title (c? (utils-kt::conc$ (^name) " with " (^fur-color) " fur.")))
>>              :name (c-in "")
>>              :fur-color (c-in "black"))
>>
>> ... the above is just part of the macroexpansion of this short form ...
>>
>> A very short demo with the above:
>>
>> CL-USER: (defvar *the-cat*)
>> *THE-CAT*
>>
>> CL-USER: (setq *the-cat* (make-instance 'cat :name (c-in "Susi")))
>> CAT0
>>
>> CL-USER: (title *the-cat*)
>> "Susi with black fur."
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks so much!,
>>> Jim
>>
>> Hope that helps ;-)
>>
>> Cheers
>>    Frank
>>
>>
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