> for instance abstracting over > x11/win32(horrors!) windowing systems first....
you're an optimist :-) On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Eray Ozkural <examach...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
