From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C922BCA7 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:19:26 +0100 (CET) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j1N7JPNo008641 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:19:26 +0100 Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA18888 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:19:25 +0100 (MET) Received: from first.in-berlin.de (dialin-145-254-062-203.arcor-ip.net [145.254.62.203]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j1N7JNRJ024269 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:19:24 +0100 Received: by first.in-berlin.de (Postfix, from userid 501) id 90CF5AF0FC; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:02:09 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:02:09 +0100 From: Oliver Bandel To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cross-platform "Hello, World" graphical application in OCaml Message-ID: <20050223000209.GC429@first.in-berlin.de> References: <20050222120308.GA2975@furbychan.cocan.org> <421B6675.20109@orcaware.com> <20050222172340.GA2557@furbychan.cocan.org> <200502221924.29080.jon@jdh30.plus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200502221924.29080.jon@jdh30.plus.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 421C2E7D.005 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 421C2E7B.003 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; oliver:01 bandel:01 oliver:01 in-berlin:01 caml-list:01 ocaml:01 wrote:01 wrote:01 wxwindows:01 widget:01 reinvent:01 guis:01 ...:98 ...:98 ....:98 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_06_12, FORGED_RCVD_HELO autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 07:24:28PM +0000, Jon Harrop wrote: > On Tuesday 22 February 2005 17:23, Richard Jones wrote: > > WxWindows isn't really suitable for what I want to do because it > > doesn't support a rich canvas widget, nor a good rich text editor. > > Does it support cross-platform OpenGL? If so then you could write your GUI in > OpenGL... OpenGL provides no buttons and no menues... and similar stuff.... ... so you had to reinvent the wheel with OpenGL. ...and that means: if everyone writes his GUI in OpenGL, the there are - agaib - as many GUIs as there are programs around... ...and all are reinventing the wheel... OpenGL is not a GUI-toolkit. It only provides 3D-API. Ciao, Oliver