From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F8EBBDCB for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:01:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from furbychan.cocan.org (furbychan.cocan.org [80.68.91.176]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j7UE1SMw020670 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:01:32 +0200 Received: from rich by furbychan.cocan.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EA6sg-0005DN-00; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:14:30 +0100 Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:14:30 +0100 To: David MENTRE Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: GUI for OCaml (was: Re: [Caml-list] Does LablTk have a future?) Message-ID: <20050830141430.GA16012@furbychan.cocan.org> References: <4311DA63.4010104@havenrock.com> <200508292333.59714.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <3d13dcfc050830001671d0974f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3d13dcfc050830001671d0974f@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i From: Richard Jones X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 431466B8.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; ocaml:01 caml-list:01 labltk:01 lablgtk:01 lablgtk:01 gtk:01 ocaml:01 macos:01 api:01 snippets:01 notepad:01 ...:98 wrote:01 behaviour:01 jacques:01 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=SPF_FAIL autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 09:16:20AM +0200, David MENTRE wrote: > The client of my application is also written in Lablgtk2 and, despite > helpful answers by Jacques Garrigue and Olivier Andrieux as well as > SooHyoung Oh's tutorials, I find programming with Labgtk2 not very > easy (to say the least). I find Lablgtk2 is largely under-documented. > Of course, this is a large task that cannot be achieved by two > individuals. Lablgtk2 is a pain, but I think the pain comes from Gtk itself, not any shortcomings in lablgtk2 or ocaml. > I'd also loved too. Having a cross-platform GUI (with native look and > behaviour on Windows and MacOS X), programmed using a functional > style, well documented (with reference manual and tutorial) and with > necessary tools (GUI design application) would be very very helpful. > > However this is a huge task. [...] It is a huge task. I'm not even sure what a "functional" API for a GUI toolkit would look like. Ideas? Example code snippets? Rich. -- Richard Jones, CTO Merjis Ltd. Merjis - web marketing and technology - http://merjis.com Team Notepad - intranets and extranets for business - http://team-notepad.com