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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:16:20 +0200
From: David MENTRE <david.mentre@gmail.com>
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Subject: GUI for OCaml (was: Re: [Caml-list] Does LablTk have a future?)
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Hello,

2005/8/30, Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>:
>  I had tried lablgtk before but failed to get to grips with it.=20

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.

> I think it would be more constructive to create a decent cross-platform G=
UI
> library from the ground up for FPLs/OCaml. This wouldn't need to be anyth=
ing
> fancy, just easy access to the simplest GUI elements to start with. I'd l=
ike
> to see GUIs described by purely functional data structures.=20

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. To add on your initial question:
  1. do you think a minimal part of the OCaml community could
aggregate to ensure the long term maintainability of the toolkit?

  2. how to have a modern look (with whatever definition you might
find for it) which *is* a discriminant point when choosing a GUI?

  3. how to respond to toolkit's users that need to have more "exotic"
widgets/systems?

Yours,
david