Re: [Caml-list] OCaml vs Ada and/or GUI options

[Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>]

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Am Donnerstag, den 12.09.2013, 08:41 +0200 schrieb Adrien Nader:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013, Adrien Nader wrote:
> > >   1. Lack of documentation. LablGTK doc says "look at C GTK doc". But
> > > the lablgtk binding changes things compared to the C API, so this not
> > > a one-to-one mapping neither. And the "obvious" changes weren't so
> > > obvious to me. A tutorial made by a Korean guy IIRC helped a lot;
> > 
> > I'd like to make another tutorial; a much shorter one that matches
> > lablgtk's high-level API (and therefore conciness). Something like a
> > 10-minutes tutorial; I'll try to get a list of topics for it.
> 
> Oh, btw, forgot to mention that I've used ocamlbrowser quite a lot.
> It has a couple issues but it's actually very nice to browse the API of
> lablgtk and other libs.
> 
> Nowadays you can run it through:
>   ocamlbrowser -I $(ocamlfind query lablgtk2)
> (or maybe -I +lablgtk2 but that's not as portable)

Even that:

ocamlfind browser -package lablgtk2

Gerd


> I think that it has really helped me. You select GWindow, then window
> then whatever you want and you have the API for that, in a small window
> that doesn't eat screen space. It doesn't do anything special but I
> found it efficient.
> 
> Using Merlin too is on my TODO list.
> 
> -- 
> Adrien Nader
> 

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