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Does LablTk have a future?
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Date: | 2005-08-30 (14:01) |
From: | Richard Jones <rich@a...> |
Subject: | Re: GUI for OCaml (was: Re: [Caml-list] Does LablTk have a future?) |
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