On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 09:52 -0400, Robert McGwier wrote: > Bob Cowdery wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 19:20 -0500, KE5EUP wrote: > > > > > >>>> I'd like to have: > >>>> > >>>> 1. A platform independent GUI. > >>>> 2. An IDE that makes GUI development "nice" (i.e. NOT VC6 style). > >>>> > >>>> > > I think one should consider in all this the push into distribution with > > Erlang which frees up each node to be in the appropriate language for > > the appropriate platform. One size fits all is no longer a limiting > > factor. The GUI layer 'should' be thin and easily redeveloped in > > multiple guises. > > > > 73 de Bob > > > Amen. >
This was a somewhat throw-away remark at the time which I didn't substantiate and no one challenged. I know people have been interested in the past in easier ways of getting involved and in general that means high level dynamic languages which are interactive and hide away that edit/compile/run cycle. This is a back-to-the-future moment where I can leverage what went before into the erlink-sr system. If you missed it or thought the earlier post irrelevant there is an intro at http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/g3ukb/ . I effectively have a UI API which I can package up quite easily into a library that can be used from Squeak and Python. I do believe in using the best language for the job and... - Erlang is wonderful for the infrastructure. - C is undoubtedly the best for DSP and arguable HW Control. - C with GTK+ is good for a high performance GUI. - Python is good for those quick automated processes and pieces of GUI in GTK+ or wxWindows. - Squeak Smalltalk is a great scripting environment and general playground. In effect Python and Squeak will be able to connect and play as erlang nodes against an API that will be exposed in their own language. For those who played with Squeak before there is 3.9 out which is a huge improvement in look and feel, less like a toy shop and more like a professional piece of work. I plan to work over the next few weeks on some shortcomings in the framework and on the Squeak plug-in adaptor (Python will come later). 73 de Bob _______________________________________________ FlexRadio mailing list FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archive Link: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ FlexRadio Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com
