Re: [Bug-apl] Tk/Tcl interface

[Blake McBride]

I know the history of J, and I agree with what they did.  I also fully agree with your observations regarding Tk.  GTK+ is a far better choice than Tk.  There is one important difference though.  Integrating GTK+ is a huge job!  Integrating Tk is much easier.  Bang for the buck, Tk is a good first pass at enabling a GUI interface of some sort.

The work done on APL's file systems and code cleanups are far more important to me.  I just think that adding sockets and a GUI interface at some point would present GNU APL as a total solution.  Having said all that, however, I certainly think the present course of tightening up the code, adding more standard APL facilities (trace, stop, etc.), and a file system are top priority.  I am just bring up some of theses ideas.

Thanks!

Blake

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 9:52 PM, Elias Mårtenson <address@hidden> wrote:

The J community seems to be pretty excited about their QT interface. Tk is easy to use, but results in horrible-looking applications that doesn't integrate well with the rest of the interface.

If I were to implement support for a GUI framework, it'd be either GTK+ or Android, depending on whether I wanted to target desktops or mobile devices.

That said, I have no intention to do either so my opinions on this matters approximately this much: ⍬

Do you have plans to implement this Tk support? If so, I will applaud your efforts and my preferences for other frameworks will not stop me from helping if I can.

Regards,

Elias

On 22 April 2014 09:30, Blake McBride <address@hidden> wrote:

Just an idea.