From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Chris Clearwater <chris@sharkzone.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Roadplan for world domination (or constructive criticism of ocaml facilities)
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2003 16:38:23 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030719153823.GA13785@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030718212114.GA31599@pyramid.twistedmatrix.com>
On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 04:21:14PM -0500, Chris Clearwater wrote:
> - Support on win32 could certainly be much better
Yes! OCaml works really well out of the box on my Debian GNU/Linux
machines, but it's a world of pain on Windows.
A binary mingw distribution including common packages (lablgtk!)
would help here.
> - There exists much fragmentation among usage of different GUI toolkits
> and they are limited to C/C++ conventions. (Is it possible to create your
> own custom GTK widgets within ocaml?)
It's possible to create compound widgets, although it's not simple and
obvious how to do it. There's a bit in my tutorial about doing
this. For creating an actual new widget I would be tempted to use a
drawing area as the basis. Not perhaps the most pure approach, but
fairly easy as the drawing area exposes all the events you need.
> 7) Create a cross-platform Font module (wrap freetype or create an Ocaml
> implementation). Include this in the standard distribution.
Camlimages wraps freetype, but obviously this is not cross-platform.
Rich.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-19 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-18 21:21 Chris Clearwater
2003-07-19 12:32 ` Sylvain LE GALL
2003-07-19 15:38 ` Richard Jones [this message]
2003-07-21 15:18 ` William Lovas
2003-07-24 16:40 ` Eray Ozkural
2003-07-26 7:36 ` Stefano Zacchiroli
2003-07-27 15:36 ` Eray Ozkural
2003-07-26 20:14 ` [Caml-list] Roadplan for world domination Warren Harris
2003-07-28 14:39 ` Guillaume Marceau
2003-07-29 12:38 ` Damien Doligez
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