From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id KAA30142 for caml-red; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 10:29:55 +0100 (MET) Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA07449 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 21:35:18 +0100 (MET) Received: from shell5.ba.best.com (shell5.ba.best.com [206.184.139.136]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f18KZHH08622 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 21:35:17 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (bpr@localhost) by shell5.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.sh) with ESMTP id MAA12242; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 12:35:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 12:35:02 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Rogoff To: Jacques Garrigue cc: luther@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr, caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: OCaml's long range graphical direction? In-Reply-To: <20010208105941X.garrigue@kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Jacques Garrigue wrote: > From: Sven LUTHER > > That said, we still have 2 gtk+ bindings, at least. > > It seems lablgtk is more complete and may have more active support, due maybe > > because jacques as more time to devote to it than i and pascal cuoq do. > > But still mlgtk seems more easy to understand and to use, needing less > > understanding of the convoluted class and methods system that lablgtk uses. > > Both lack good documentation, well apart from the source that is. > > This convoluted class and method system is intended to make using > lablgtk easier on the long term :-) > In fact, people seem to be coping with it OK. That is, I didn't get > that many questions on it. But certainly, there is a huge deficit in > documentation. I just hack on the examples, but surely a bit more documentation would help. This might be good Consortium work, or even fixable with a volunteer effort. After all of the admonitions against the use of Obj.magic it's a bit disconcerting to count 41 Obj.magic usages in lablgtk. I recall hearing that that will change. What's the plan? -- Brian