On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Thomas Chust <ch...@web.de> wrote: > 2011/3/31 Steve Graham <jsgraha...@yahoo.com> >> Can someone point me to some info on this? > > Hello Steve, > > there is compiler support for executables marked as GUI applications > through the -gui command line option. But to actually create a GUI, > you will have to use one of the eggs providing bindings for user > interface toolkits [1]. All the Tk and Qt based ones should, in > principle, work under Windows. The IUP binding is also known to work > under Windows. > >> Also does Chicken Scheme have a method for accessing databases? > > Yes, check the eggs providing database functionality [2]. However, > there is currently no database-independent layer like Perl's DBI > module that provides a uniform API for all other relational database > drivers.
Oh, that's been one of my pet peeves for a long time now. The closest we have is awful's $db procedure. I've toyed with the idea, but I am afraid I'm not knowledgeable enough about all RDBMS to come up with a decent API. Any suggestions? -- Stephen _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
