The actual UI have a lot of potential, with great ideas from CLIM. Very few other open source PL provide such cross platform GUI toolkits on their own (maybe Squeak/Morphic), and it is a quite nice job.
I hope too that development on that part of Factor will continue: more gadgets (such as the missing combo-box ), customizable look and feel and skinning, etc. On the opposite side, it could be interesting too to have bindings to existing cross platform GUI toolkits with a more traditional and native look and feel. Since such toolkits are generally difficult to bind due to their C++ nature (Qt, WxWidgets, ...) maybe it could be a better idea to provide bindings to a more lightweight library. More precisely I am thinking about IUP (http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/), a cross platform GUI toolkit being developed by PUC-Rio. It was initialy developed to be used by the Lua programming language, but since it is written in pure C with just about 100 functions, Factor should handle it nicely too. Good idea? Gabriel. Kobi Lurie a écrit : > Hey guys, I'm looking to do more serious 'factor'ing, and want to > build a complete app. > But the documentation for the gui part, is very limited. > (I also like the portable nature of the gui and that it looks the same - > and would like to create something) > > Are there any tutorials I missed, or that you're in the middle of? > can I ask questions here, as I'm unpuzzling this? > > on a related note, the rebol gui was the easiest/cutest I saw. > Does the factor base lack gui applications because of a limitation or > poor api of gadgets, or simply no interest yet? > > > I'm very interested to have atleast some initial basis to build upon, > and feel that it's a shame to switch languages just because of a > library. factor code is nice and simple imo. > > Welcoming any info and comments, > Kobi > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
