From: Watton, John D.

Subject: Use clim or common-graphics in ACL 3.0.1?

Date: 1997-3-26 14:52

I have a relatively small application for windows (NT & 95) that I wish
to distribute a runtime version for. I have come to the point where I
need to do the GUI part of the program and I am asking for some advice.
Should I use clim or common-graphics. In my mind the advantages of clim
for me are: 
	(1) I know clim very well from ACL 4.3 for unix.
	(2) It is portable to Harlequin's LispWorks for windows (and the unix
acl 4.3).

Whereas, the disadvantages of clim are (or may be):
	(1) A larger runtime image (can anyone estimate how much larger?).
	(2) Slower graphics? (but it's not an application where this matters).

Also, if I use clim do I still have access to common-graphics functions?
I am concerned about the limitations of no multithreading and use
process-pending-events to interrupt cpu intensive computations.

Any free advice is greatly appreciatied. Thanks.

John Watton, ALCOA