David (cc'ing larceny-users)- On Aug 19, 2008, at 3:44 AM, David Rush wrote:
> But has anyone done a GTK+ set of bindings for Larceny yet? This is > more of a curiosity kind of inquiry than a serious project need right > now, but given the cross-platform capabilities of both systems, the > combination would make Larceny/GTK a really great platform for > cross-platform GUI development. I did some work on a set of GTK+ bindings. Take a look at: https://trac.ccs.neu.edu/trac/larceny/browser/trunk/larceny_src/lib/Standard/gtk.sch https://trac.ccs.neu.edu/trac/larceny/browser/trunk/larceny_src/lib/Standard/gtk-2.4.sch https://trac.ccs.neu.edu/trac/larceny/browser/trunk/larceny_src/lib/Standard/glib.sch https://trac.ccs.neu.edu/trac/larceny/browser/trunk/larceny_src/lib/Standard/gdk.sch and example uses of it in: https://trac.ccs.neu.edu/trac/larceny/browser/experiments/gtk Its nowhere near complete, but the fundamentals are there. Some newer FFI features were added specifically to support the needs of GTK+; e.g. the establish-void*-subhierarchy! procedure. Other bits were put in before I had developed define-c-info and friends, so there are some ugly hard-coded values that should be replaced with invocations of define-c-info or similar header importing macros. Other elements of support were pretty much hacked in, such as the use of g_signal_query to dynamically extract the expected type of a callback in glib.sch. Recently I've been experimenting more with OpenGL bindings than GTK+. But it would be good for someone with more GTK+ experience than myself to exercise the existing set of GTK+ bindings and add more functions to it. > Besides, PLT's GUI system makes me crazy :) A set of bindings for wxWindows might also be worth exploring. PLT's system is based on a fork of an old version of wx; it would be interesting to see if we could hook into the current version of wx. But then again I do not know how actively that project is maintained; GTK+ seems like a safer bet in terms of long term support and activity from the development community. -Felix _______________________________________________ Larceny-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/bin/listinfo/larceny-users
