Hello David, On Mon, 8 Dec 2014, David Topham wrote:
I am interested in connecting GUI to ML as well as functions written in C/C++ and all that seems like it would work (form reading the documentation). [...] Is there a better way to mix GUI with PolyML?
I myself picked up PolyML recently and I'm liking the small distribution. Unfortunately that means it doesn't comes with "batteries included", as they say.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
What I found is that wrapping C libraries using the interface documented at http://polyml.org/docs/CInterface.html is rather simple - provided you know C, but from reading your mail that seems to be no issue. I didn't want a GUI library, but I wrapped parts of SDL2 for some simple game development, see https://github.com/gattschardo/hashira/blob/master/sdl.sml it's not a complete wrapper, just what I felt I needed myself. Also I have a somewhat more complete wrapping for libjson at: https://github.com/fkmsoft/fridge/blob/master/ml/json.ML So you might want to try just wrapping relevant parts of e.g. Gtk yourself and see how far you can get (don't know how wrapping C++ for getting Qt would work) Cheers Richard PS: if anybody is interested in using my WIP wrappers, I'd be happy to polish them a little and put them in proper repositories. _______________________________________________ polyml mailing list [email protected] http://lists.inf.ed.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/polyml
