From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Delivered-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by yquem.inria.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 550FEBC75 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:36:18 +0100 (CET) Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net (ptb-relay03.plus.net [212.159.14.214]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j1NBaHkB025888 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 12:36:18 +0100 Received: from [80.229.56.224] (helo=chetara) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1D3uoR-000Hbt-EX for caml-list@yquem.inria.fr; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:36:15 +0000 From: Jon Harrop Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Cross-platform "Hello, World" graphical application in OCaml Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:37:35 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 References: <20050222120308.GA2975@furbychan.cocan.org> <200502221924.29080.jon@jdh30.plus.com> <20050223000209.GC429@first.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <20050223000209.GC429@first.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502231137.35665.jon@jdh30.plus.com> X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 421C6AB1.002 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml:01 oliver:01 bandel:01 wrote:01 reinvent:01 ocaml:01 imho:01 ...:98 ....:98 ...:98 frog:98 natively:01 opengl:01 opengl:01 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Level: On Wednesday 23 February 2005 00:02, Oliver Bandel wrote: > OpenGL provides no buttons and no menues... and similar stuff.... > > ... so you had to reinvent the wheel with OpenGL. Not if there was an OpenGL-based GUI library that you could use. OCaml is ideal for writing this kind of code natively, IMHO. > It only provides 3D-API. And 1D, 2D and a little 4D. -- Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd. http://ffconsultancy.com