Thanks for your reply Richard, I will look into using CInterface. That makes me think that another approach could be to use an imperative language for the GUI and link in the ML functions! That way existing GUI builders could be used. I will experiment. I scannned through your work on wrapping SDL and find it interesting. Since I am new to ML could you supply a short demo of how one would integrate those into a complete example? (I think SDL is supplied with TinyCore, so I will test it there). I noticed when loading the Motif library in PolyML (the use command), that the screen would display each function as it is loaded. Do you know if there is a way to create a standalone app that does not bombard the user with that kind of loading info? e.g. When you start up your SDL game, does it scroll through screens of info before game starts? -Dave
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 4:00 AM, <polyml-requ...@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > Send polyml mailing list submissions to > polyml@inf.ed.ac.uk > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.inf.ed.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/polyml > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > polyml-requ...@inf.ed.ac.uk > > You can reach the person managing the list at > polyml-ow...@inf.ed.ac.uk > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of polyml digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Poly/ML (David Topham) > 2. Re: Poly/ML (Richard Molitor) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 18:03:27 +0000 (UTC) > From: David Topham <dtop...@gmail.com> > To: polyml@inf.ed.ac.uk > Subject: [polyml] Poly/ML > Message-ID: <loom.20141208t185725-...@post.gmane.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I just discovered PolyML while looking for a distribution of Standard ML > that I > could compile from source on TinyCore Linux. It worked perfectly (unike > SMLNJ > e.g.). > > 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). My > question is this: > The doc for using PolyML Motif is 14 years old and one posting from > David > Matthews in this forum mentioned that Motif is no longer maintained, so I > wonder > if that was a project that is no longer worth learning. > > Is there a better way to mix GUI with PolyML? > > (I have been using FLTK with C++ with very good success so > far, but want to add in the ability to mix in functional (SML) programming. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated! > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 00:02:24 +0100 (CET) > From: Richard Molitor <gattscha...@googlemail.com> > To: polyml@inf.ed.ac.uk > Subject: Re: [polyml] Poly/ML > Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.03.1412090000160.5655@localdomain.local> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > 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 > polyml@inf.ed.ac.uk > http://lists.inf.ed.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/polyml > > End of polyml Digest, Vol 110, Issue 3 > ************************************** > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > >
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