From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA06856; Wed, 28 May 2003 11:38:23 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f 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 LAA07239 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 11:38:22 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lcavsun1.epfl.ch (lcavsun1.epfl.ch [128.178.8.3]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h4S9cLT27356 for ; Wed, 28 May 2003 11:38:21 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from lcmpc4.epfl.ch (lcmpc4.epfl.ch [128.178.8.59]) by lcavsun1.epfl.ch (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA16254; Wed, 28 May 2003 11:38:14 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 11:38:13 +0200 (CEST) From: henridf@lcavsun1.epfl.ch X-X-Sender: henridf@lcmpc4.epfl.ch To: sashan cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] GUI toolkit advice In-Reply-To: <3ED403B2.3000208@ihug.co.nz> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam: no; 0.00; henridf:01 lcavsun:01 caml-list:01 gui:01 toolkit:01 lablgtk:01 api:01 inspect:01 toolkits:01 bindings:01 caml:01 trivial:01 o'caml:02 binding:03 henri:03 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk I recently asked a similar question and got some helpful replies, see http://caml.inria.fr/archives/200304/msg00189.html and followups. 2 months later, having coded my GUI using lablgtk, i would say the following: On the one hand, lablgtk has many features and works great. On the other hand, to get something good out of it you do need to invest quite some effort. Mostly due to lack of documentation, it's not just a matter of writing code to an API, because I found myself having to go and inspect the code pretty often to figure out how to use this or that. Also, though my UI was relatively straightforward I stumbled across 2 pretty trivial bugs, which gave me the impression that lots of the code has not been very well exercised yet. Henri > Hi > > I was looking around the O'Caml website and surrounding sites for gui > toolkits. I'm interested in a platform independent (windows or linux) > toolkit. The bindings I've come across so far are LablGTK and a binding > for tk. Are there any other gui toolkits? What would you use if you > wanted to write an app with a gui that could run no linux or windows? > > thanks > > -- ------------------------------------------------ chicken coop: http://plan.epfl.ch/?sciper=107072 ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners