From: Jon Harrop <jon@ffconsultancy.com>
To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ANN: pretty-printing, type-safe marshalling, dynamic typing for free.
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:05:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707170405.53762.jon@ffconsultancy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200707150503.16654.jon@ffconsultancy.com>
On Sunday 15 July 2007 05:03:16 Jon Harrop wrote:
> The idea of retrofitting equality types onto OCaml interests me greatly.
> Any chance you could elaborate on how this is done and what errors look
> like? :-)
Incidentally, another rather cool application of this kind of functionality
would be to mimic .NET's PropertyGrid class. This class uses reflection to
convert a data structure into a Windows Forms control that allows you to edit
that data structure.
This is quite profilic in the developer-facing GUIs from Microsoft, such as
the properties subwindow that you get in Visual Studio's GUI designer.
Essentially it provides a very easy way to lash up totally unergonomic GUIs.
An idea that is very close to my heart. ;-)
You could take an OCaml data type and translate it into GTK widgets that let
you edit its contents.
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
OCaml for Scientists
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/?e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-17 3:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-20 0:14 Jeremy Yallop
2007-06-20 8:01 ` [Caml-list] " Nicolas Pouillard
[not found] ` <AB56B84F-A45E-433B-B419-2B49F5D92043@gmail.com>
2007-06-20 10:27 ` Jeremy Yallop
2007-06-20 18:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-06-20 19:38 ` [Caml-list] " Jeremy Yallop
2007-06-20 21:06 ` Eric Cooper
2007-06-21 7:37 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2007-06-22 0:05 ` Jeremy Yallop
2007-07-15 4:03 ` [Caml-list] " Jon Harrop
2007-07-17 3:05 ` Jon Harrop [this message]
2007-07-19 0:20 ` Jeremy Yallop
2007-07-20 6:24 ` Jon Harrop
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