Creating a GUI for CLIPS

[Ankit Kulshrestha]

Hi,

I just discovered this google group. I'm taking a course in AI, and we are using CLIPS. I'm developing a GUI frontend for CLIPS and I've got a few questions:


1. Can I use library written in C++ to integrate with the C source code of CLIPS.

2. What library, is better suited for creating a GUI for CLIPS? I've got either Qt or GTK+ in mind.


Any other general pointers and tips would be appreciated. Thanks.

[CLIPS Support]

There are example projects at https://sourceforge.net/projects/clipsrules/files/CLIPS/6.30/ demonstrating how to integrate .NET, Swing, and iOS interfaces with CLIPS. You could use these to get some ideas for integrating with Qt or GTK+.

[Ankit Kulshrestha]

Thanks for pointing me there. BTW how difficult is the task of building a GUI?

[CLIPS Support]

It's significantly easier if you start with a working example, particularly if it's the platform you're targeting, but you'd still find it easier for example to build an android app if you can see how it was done for iOS.

[Ronald Finkbine]

You can write the GUI in any language you want just use the clips command line program in batch mode.

c:\ clips -f file.clp    // this  runs the clips program from the command line with the file.clp as input.

in the file.clp file yo:

 - 

Ronald Finkbine
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[Ronald Finkbine]

You can write the GUI in any language you want just use the clips command line program in batch mode.

c:\ clips -f file.clp    // this  runs the clips program from the command line with the file.clp as input.

in the file.clp file you:

  - turn on the dribble-on -- this writes output for a file you name

  - have the templates and the rules to run your expert system

So you have your Java program or whatever WRITE out the file.clp file (standard compiler technology).

In Java you then use ProcessBuilder to execute the "clips -f file.clp" command in batch mode and wait on it to run, then read the dribble on file that clips created when it ran and  parse that for output (knowledge).

Read that knowledge (as string data) back into your GUI program in Java and you have Clips running in batch.

It is quite satisfactory in running time, nothing every really hits the hard drive, it is all cached in memory.

 

I fiddled with this a couple years ago and got it working in a couple days.

Ronald Finkbine
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[Ankit Kulshrestha]

Thanks for pointing out a simple thing! I've created the gui but was struggling to get it running. How do you load clips in batch mode in c++?

[Ronald Finkbine]

Depends on the OS platform.

Google "c++ execute shell command"

and work the examples.

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[Juri Zaburunov]

You can use clipsmm lib, as I do. Batch file you can load with batch C API - function as I properly remember...

среда, 30 ноября 2016 г., 23:05:25 UTC-5 пользователь Ankit Kulshrestha написал:

[Alex Gian]

Why resort to batch files?
CLIPS has a great customisable I/O interface.

Read Chapter 7 of the Programmers Guide on I/O Routers!

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