* Re: A labltk book?
@ 2007-10-12 22:23 Jeff Shaw
2007-10-15 1:42 ` [Caml-list] " Matt Gushee
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From: Jeff Shaw @ 2007-10-12 22:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: caml-list
Tk 8.5 will make extensive use of native widgets. Tile is being merged
with Tk in 8.5, which appears to be in beta.
http://wiki.tcl.tk/11075
When Tk 8.5 is release I'll be looking into updating Labltk to use the
new widgets.
>On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 07:43:32AM +0100, Jon Harrop wrote:
>> On Friday 12 October 2007 05:50:58 Jeff Shaw wrote:
>> > I'm wondering if there's much of a market for a proper Labltk book?
>> I'd love a book on GUI programming with OCaml! Is LabkGTK2 more
>> popular than LablTK?
>
>Probably. Its widgets are also much nicer looking, and apps written
>with it don't look jarringly out of place on a modern desktop the way
>Tk apps do. (All IMO, of course.)
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* Re: [Caml-list] Re: A labltk book?
2007-10-12 22:23 A labltk book? Jeff Shaw
@ 2007-10-15 1:42 ` Matt Gushee
2007-10-15 8:01 ` Christoph Bauer
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From: Matt Gushee @ 2007-10-15 1:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: caml-list
Jeff Shaw wrote:
> Tk 8.5 will make extensive use of native widgets.
Good idea, I suppose. But what does "native widgets" mean for *nix
systems--GTK?
--
Matt Gushee
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* RE: [Caml-list] Re: A labltk book?
2007-10-15 1:42 ` [Caml-list] " Matt Gushee
@ 2007-10-15 8:01 ` Christoph Bauer
2007-10-15 8:19 ` Jon Harrop
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From: Christoph Bauer @ 2007-10-15 8:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Matt Gushee, caml-list
> > Tk 8.5 will make extensive use of native widgets.
>
> Good idea, I suppose. But what does "native widgets" mean for
> *nix systems--GTK?
tile adds theme support to Tk. Screenshoots are under
http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/.
Under Windows the drawing is done via an X emulation layer.
Christoph Bauer
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* Re: [Caml-list] Re: A labltk book?
2007-10-15 8:01 ` Christoph Bauer
@ 2007-10-15 8:19 ` Jon Harrop
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From: Jon Harrop @ 2007-10-15 8:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: caml-list
On Monday 15 October 2007 09:01:45 Christoph Bauer wrote:
> > > Tk 8.5 will make extensive use of native widgets.
> >
> > Good idea, I suppose. But what does "native widgets" mean for
> > *nix systems--GTK?
>
> tile adds theme support to Tk. Screenshoots are under
> http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/.
Assuming the vast majority of Unix users will be using either Gnome or KDE,
that is a non-native look for Unix. In fact, "Classic" looks like RISC OS to
me, and "Revitalized" looks like old Windows.
I must confess I don't understand the idea of tweaking pixellated widget
toolkits when everyone else just moved on to hardware-accelerated vector
graphics with integrated 3D. Especially when the fastest renderer available
is written in OCaml, free and cross platform... :-)
--
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/?e
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* Re: A labltk book?
@ 2007-10-15 16:42 Jeff Shaw
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From: Jeff Shaw @ 2007-10-15 16:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
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This thread was quite derailed... should I then assume there's very
little interest in such a book?
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* A labltk book?
@ 2007-10-12 4:50 Jeff Shaw
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From: Jeff Shaw @ 2007-10-12 4:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: caml-list
Dear Ocaml Community,
After teaching myself Labltk and learning enough about its internals to
update it to use Tk 8.4's new widgets, I'm wondering if there's much of
a market for a proper Labltk book? Nothing too serious, maybe something
self-published that would cost in the range of $10 to $20 and provide
some missing documentation and tutorials. Lots of screenshots of course,
and maybe a simple game or two.
I'd release it for free, but hey, I'm a poor student.
Any thoughts?
Sincerely,
Jeff
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