Re: [Caml-list] Cross-platform "Hello, World" graphical application in OCaml

[Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:36:53AM -0600, Ken Rawlings wrote:
> My experiences building Kog were overall positive. However, writing a
> full-featured GUI from scratch is a lot of work, so Kog is likely to
> remain a toy implementation for the foreseeable future. If there's
> much interest in the OCaml community for this sort of thing though,
> I'd love to work with a group on a project getting a full-featured
> lightweight GUI up and running with OCaml, whether it be on OpenGL
> directly, or one of the higher level vector libraries.

I think this would be the wrong direction to go.

What I think would be useful is an OCaml wrapper around Gtk, Win32 and
Aqua/COCOA.  The idea would be for the OCaml wrapper to abstract away
the differences, allowing cross-platform programming with native
widgets.  WxWidgets fits the bill here, but the actual API is clunky.
I have a feeling that something could be done better with a functional
programming approach.

Of course it's a lot of tedious engineering work.  I'm not
volunteering!

Rich.

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