On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:36 AM, ben kuin <benk...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the main problem is the lack of cross platform gui that looks > good on windows. > > LablTk: ok only for simple gui > LablGtk: fragile on linux, bad on windows > qt: I once tried to create bindings for a newer qt release ( > > 4.2), I didn't finished it, but I think it would be doable. The big > problem though is the huge qt dependency with this blackboxy C++/moc > thing .
yeah i tried my hand once too :/ i've been thinking about this. perhaps the best bet is to write a proper gui toolkit in ocaml. after all this is the most productive programming language, right? :D i remember a lot of interesting gui frameworks and approaches for functional languages. i bet we could create a much better api than any of those once we get rid of the low-level low-tech approach to gui programming. why don't we write a google summer of code proposal for that? perhaps some enthusiastic students would take up the challenge. it could be divided into some stages, for instance abstracting over x11/win32(horrors!) windowing systems first.... cheers, -- Eray Ozkural, PhD candidate. Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ai-philosophy http://myspace.com/arizanesil http://myspace.com/malfunct _______________________________________________ Caml-list mailing list. Subscription management: http://yquem.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/caml-list Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs
