Re: [Chicken-users] cross-platform gui toolkit

[Kon Lovett]

On Feb 5, 2007, at 11:04 PM, felix winkelmann wrote:

> On 2/6/07, Kon Lovett <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I do like Cells, but I am unsure if Tilton is still working on Cello.
> > It seems dormant. A TinyCLOS Cells extension would be nice (so would
> > ContextL but Cells might be more generally useful).
>
> I've never grokked cells. It's hard to figure out the facts from  
> Tilton's
> lingo... Is there some documentation available?

Yeah, it is unnecessarily obscure. However, the declarative style  
with constraint satisfaction is the start of a good abstraction for  
UI programming.

http://common-lisp.net/project/cells/

http://www.tilton-technology.com/cells_top.html

> > Any use in following PLT's MrEd, MrLib & Framework for Scheme GUI
> > bindings?
>
> It uses an old hacked version of wxWidgets. I'd prefer to stay away  
> from
> that.

I meant the Scheme layer, not the impl. But I haven't done any  
analysis of it (except that I do not like the '%' hanging around in  
the symbols.)

> cheers,
> felix