2025-06-20 15:50:57 <nmz         > I wonder if there's a TK out there that sets up a socket, and you can bidirectionally receive events from the window and draw to it by issuing commands.
2025-06-20 15:51:50 <nmz         > I guess that's a terminal
2025-06-20 15:56:41 <lispmacs[work]> this is basically what is going on with a X Server / X Client, right?
2025-06-20 15:56:48 <lispmacs[work]> but using packets
2025-06-20 15:59:19 <lispmacs[work]> the sockets are in /tmp/.X11-unix
2025-06-20 16:08:58 <nmz         > No idea
2025-06-20 16:10:46 <nmz         > You are right but since you're running functions in C I didn't think it was doing that
2025-06-20 16:15:38 <lispmacs[work]> nmz: well, to try to more directly answer your question, I'd say one option you could look at would be send and receiving commands to an intermediary common lisp mcclim program
2025-06-20 16:16:16 <lispmacs[work]> you could send and receive sexps for the interface actions and events
2025-06-20 16:19:12 <lispmacs[work]> I know in the past I've had Emacs communicating with a lisp environment over a unix socket, I think it was common lisp
2025-06-20 16:19:53 <lispmacs[work]> mcclim provides a lispy interface to graphical interfaces
2025-06-20 16:20:32 <veltas      > What problem are you trying to solve?
2025-06-20 16:23:45 <nmz         > Having to use butt ugly C to write a GUI
2025-06-20 16:49:38 <nmz         > Not*
2025-06-20 16:50:00 <nmz         > I was also wondering if you could write a GUI using shellscript and how would you go about doing that
2025-06-20 22:52:59 <xentrac     > nmz: historically that was not a thing you could do
2025-06-20 22:53:09 <xentrac     > 13:50 < nmz> I wonder if there's a TK out there that sets up a socket, and you can bidirectionally receive events from the window and draw to it by issuing commands.
2025-06-20 22:53:35 <xentrac     > this sounds kind of like stdg: https://github.com/calebwin/stdg "stdg" provides #graphics from shell scripts (or anything else that can do text on stdin and stdout) with a simplified PostScript-like command language — but supporting interactivity!  Just 1kloc of #Rust.  #smallisbeautiful
2025-06-20 22:56:41 <xentrac     > unjust also wrote a thing called glaze.c where the idea was to just present a file on the screen: https://gist.github.com/jhswartz/a1a3a9d53bf3d16edfa824ebb1b45070
2025-06-20 22:56:50 <xentrac     > I think that's an approach that has real promise
2025-06-20 23:00:00 <identity    > yeah, "just" 1kloc of rust, + 845 lines of the lockfile
2025-06-20 23:07:03 <xentrac     > haha
2025-06-20 23:07:22 <xentrac     > the kids are not all right