About wxCLIPS

wxCLIPS is an extension to NASA's CLIPS expert system shell.

It was developed to enable CLIPS programmers to write portable, graphical programs which run under X and Windows 3.1. It is essentially CLIPS modified to work with an event driven style of programming, and a set of GUI functions. Its name reflects the fact that it is a CLIPS interface to wxWindows, a C++ GUI library also written at AIAI.

wxCLIPS supports CLIPS 5.1, CLIPS 6.0, and CLIPS 6.0 with fuzzy extensions, depending on how it is compiled.

wxCLIPS is really two entities:

  1. A library of CLIPS functions to access a subset of wxWindows functionality.
  2. A simple stand-alone development environment for developing wxWindows applications using these extra CLIPS functions.
The library can be used by any C++ program, to give it a tailoring language and interactive access to GUI functionality. The stand-alone wxCLIPS is a simple development interface making use of the library.

The wxCLIPS extensions to CLIPS were written by Julian Smart of the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh. You can get the latest version of the Windows and Sun Open Look and Motif binaries and source from the AIAI ftp site (see below).

Dr Julian Smart
Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute
University of Edinburgh
80 South Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1HN

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