From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Original-To: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr 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 3316ABDCB for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:24:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cgpsrv2.cis.mcmaster.ca (univmail.CIS.McMaster.CA [130.113.64.46]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j7UEOqFS023916 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:24:52 +0200 Received: from [130.113.68.27] (account carette@univmail.cis.mcmaster.ca [130.113.68.27] verified) by cgpsrv2.cis.mcmaster.ca (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 102404804; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:24:51 -0400 Message-ID: <43146BC0.8050509@mcmaster.ca> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:22:56 -0400 From: Jacques Carette User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christophe Raffalli Cc: caml-list@yquem.inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: GUI for OCaml References: <4311DA63.4010104@havenrock.com> <200508292333.59714.jon@ffconsultancy.com> <3d13dcfc050830001671d0974f@mail.gmail.com> <43142CB2.8030306@univ-savoie.fr> In-Reply-To: <43142CB2.8030306@univ-savoie.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Miltered: at concorde with ID 43146C34.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml:01 christophe:01 raffalli:01 widget:01 syntax:01 wrote:01 compile:01 tex:01 jacques:01 jacques:01 mcmaster:02 programming:03 dynamic:03 static:03 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on yquem.inria.fr X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=disabled version=3.0.3 Christophe Raffalli wrote: > I would prefer a GUI programming language (similar to TeX for word > processing). This might be easier to develop, can either be static > (the widget build at compile time) or dynamic, and most of all, it is > easier to modify an existing GUI. > What about re-using the work from Mozilla - I mean Gecko and XUL. See the links on http://www.mozilla.org/projects/. It should be relatively simple to create a human-friendly syntax for it, so I don't think that XML is a real issue. Jacques