I'm a massive fan of Qt and have done a lot of Qt/QML in C++ in the past, but lately when I've needed to do a GUI (and could use Clojure), I've been making it Web based and using ClojureScript with Om. Since jetty/http-kit run nicely as embedded servers, you could have your application run locally and launch a browser (rather than running it on a server) if you wanted, and if you have the ClojureScript talk to the Clojure "server" through sente, you _almost_ won't even notice its not all plain Clojure since communication looks more or less like a core.async channel.
Might be a bit much to learn if you're new to Clojure, though. I haven't used swing or Qt in Clojure, so can't comment on them. On 4 May 2014 10:44, Cecil Westerhof <cldwester...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2014-05-04 10:20 GMT+02:00 Cecil Westerhof <cldwester...@gmail.com>: > > >> >> >> 2014-05-04 10:09 GMT+02:00 Colin Fleming <colin.mailingl...@gmail.com>: >> >> There's really no "only" way to do anything in Clojure, since you can >>> always drop down to Java interop. So anything that's available to Java is >>> available to Clojure, too. Not all the options have a nice Seesaw-like >>> wrapper over it of course, but they're generally still quite usable. I do a >>> reasonable amount of Swing work without Seesaw, mostly because it takes a >>> while to start up, but Seesaw has a lovely API if that's not such an issue >>> for you. Swing is generally a fine option, if you look at IntelliJ you'll >>> see it's possible to make it quite pretty and functional, although it's a >>> lot of work to get to that stage. >>> >>> Other options are QTJambi or SWT - I don't know anything about Pivot and >>> the demos didn't work for me either in Firefox or Safari but it looks like >>> that might be an option too. JavaFX may also be an option, although I don't >>> know much about it. Or you can go for more esoteric options like embedding >>> Chromium in a native app wrapper and use ClojureScript, which is what >>> LightTable and other projects do. >>> >>> It really depends on your requirements, but the above are all viable >>> options. >>> >> >> Well, I am a newbie with GUI, so best to start with seesaw if there is >> no real reason not to use Swing I think then. (I do not remember why Swing >> was discouraged.) I have to look into the start-up time. I did not know >> about that. >> >> By the way: as I understood it JavaFX is only an option if you only >> develop for Windows. >> > > I see that there is also clj-swing. What would are the advantages of > either compared to the other? > > -- > Cecil Westerhof > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
