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- From: berlage@n32.gmd.de (Thomas Berlage)
- Subject: GINA release 2.2 available
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- Keywords: announcement, GINA, Motif
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- Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:36:25 GMT
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- GINA RELEASE 2.2
- ================
-
- The Release 2.2 of GINA is now available from GMD.
-
- GINA (Generic Interactive Application) is an application framework based on
- Common Lisp and OSF/Motif to simplify the construction of graphical
- interactive applications. It consists of:
-
- o CLM, a language binding for OSF/Motif in Common Lisp.
-
- o the GINA application framework, a class library implemented in CLOS
- (the Common Lisp Object System).
-
- o the GINA interface builder, an interactive tool implemented with GINA
- to design Motif windows.
-
- To run GINA, you need OSF/Motif 1.1 or higher and a Common Lisp implementation
- with CLX, CLOS or PCL and processes (directly supported are Franz Allegro,
- Lucid, CMU CL and Symbolics Genera).
-
- GINA is publicly available under similar terms as the X Window System.
- The GINA 2.2 distribution consists of three files:
-
- CLM+GINA.README describes the contents of the release
- CLM2.2.tar.Z compressed tar file of CLM version 2.2
- GINA2.2.tar.Z compressed tar file of GINA and the interface
- builder, including documentation
-
- These files reside on
- ftp.gmd.de (129.26.8.90) in /gmd/gina
- (see the file README for a list of
- additional contents of this directory)
- export.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib
-
- There is a mailing list for gina users where problems can be discussed
- and new developments are announced. Send mail to
- gina-users-request@gmdzi.gmd.de
- if you want to be added to the list. If you want to contribute to the
- discussion, send mail to gina-users@gmdzi.gmd.de.
-
- If you have any questions concerning GINA, you can contact
-
- Michael Spenke, Project GINA (spenke@gmd.de)
- GMD (German National Research Center for Computer Science)
- P.O. Box 1316
- 5205 Sankt Augustin 1
- Germany
-
-
- Overview of Changes since GINA 2.1:
- ===================================
-
- GINA 2.2 is the next publicly available GINA version after GINA 2.1
- of January 1992.
-
- o The documentation remains unchanged.
-
- o CLM now works with CMU CL (16e and up) and Ibuki Lisp.
-
- o GINA now works with CMU CL, although background processes are not available.
-
- o Tetris now has the usual pieces, not simply rectangles.
-
- o New demo application: diagram-editor.
-
- o The inspector was replaced with a new one. There is only one window with
- a list of objects to select from.
-
- o The browser includes a new facility to generate code for subclassing and
- overriding methods of GINA.
-
- o The menu entry "Reply History" is now available as the "Play" button in
- the history scroller.
-
- o The CLX functions copy-plane and copy-area are now available as GINA
- functions to support future hooks.
-
- There are some experimental extensions in GINA that are probably not stable
- enough to be used generally (so there is no documentation for them yet). These
- features include:
-
- o A first version of the TAP mechanism (see paper available by FTP).
-
- o Postscript printing (optional "postscript.lisp").
-
- o The GINA interaction recorder (see paper available by FTP).
- Optional "interaction-rec.lisp".
-
-