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

[Felix]

From: Ivan Raikov <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Anyone looked at making an egg for clutter?
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:52:52 +0900

> 
>   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.
> 

Now this would be absolutely awesome. Anyone interested in taking part
in such a project? FPS appears to have some sort of backend
abstraction (I'm not sure, but I recall having noticed something like
that the last time I looked at the code). A (say) OpenGL backend
would be, well, awesome...


cheers,
felix