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

[felix winkelmann]

On 2/5/07, minh thu <address@hidden> wrote:
> About the API. You'd like to go opengl-style, right (stateful or
> stateless ?) ? What about a xhtml/css/javascript style ? I mean, of
> course, everything in Scheme but with content/presentation/logic
> separated... Otherwise, it would be the classical event-based (with
> callbacks) mechanism ? I wonder what other means could be used.

I'd go with classical event-based. We have continuations and closures
to make it less painful.

> Maybe some kind of message passing instead of function calling ? (any
> idea of gui toolkit for erlang ?) Or some kind of spreadcheet-like (I
> think to phooey in haskell or cello in common lisp).
>
> Sorry, I understand the goal is to be practical and cheap for the time
> and effort of the community :)

But your ideas are good! At some stage a higher-level approach would be
needed, but I'm still thinking about the basics.


cheers,
felix