Re: [Chicken-users] Anyone looked at making an egg for clutter?

[Ivan Raikov]

  Unfortunately, Clutter has a very extensive and large API, as is
commonly the case the systems like GTK/Cairo/Qt, etc. For example, the
Haskell bindings for Clutter take up almost 100KB compressed, which is
enormous for a library in a functional programming language. And even
with the great FFI tools provided by Chicken, one still needs to figure
out how to effectively wrap the non-trivial data structures used by
Clutter and its underlying APIs. I think that a more appropriate
functional approach might be to develop a bitmap equivalent of
Functional Post Script that can interface with a minimal low-level
display library such as ezxdisp. In that way, abstract definitions of
GUI elements can be mapped on to any API for bitmap display.

   -Ivan


Matthew Welland <address@hidden> writes:

> Just curious....
>
> clutter-project.org
>
> _______________________________________________
> Chicken-users mailing list
> address@hidden
> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users