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 BB30BBCA7 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:19:25 +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 j1N7JPIH008631 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:19:25 +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 IAA18913 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 j1N7JNB3024267 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 08:19:24 +0100 Received: by first.in-berlin.de (Postfix, from userid 501) id 74501AF175; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:27:45 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:27:45 +0100 From: Oliver Bandel To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cross-platform "Hello, World" graphical application in OCaml Message-ID: <20050223002745.GE429@first.in-berlin.de> References: <20050222120308.GA2975@furbychan.cocan.org> <20050222202426.GA25230@furbychan.cocan.org> <421BA39F.20907@ntlworld.com> <200502222216.25721.jon@jdh30.plus.com> <4a4478d088d9fa3d5d1d82dd42b163d8@epfl.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4a4478d088d9fa3d5d1d82dd42b163d8@epfl.ch> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Miltered: at nez-perce with ID 421C2E7D.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 421C2E7B.001 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 functors:01 functors:01 high-level:01 ocaml:01 ...:98 ...:98 ....:98 modules:01 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 Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:30:18AM +0100, Daniel Bnzli wrote: [...] > However the big problem of these custom gui systems is the lack of > integration with the native gui system. [...] ...smells like functors.... ...using specialized API-bindings in certain modules and using them with functors inside a generic GUI-API (which should be very high-level and really platform independent). OCaml seems to me to be a very powerful tool in this respect, but not used in such a powerful way...?! Ciao, Oliver