[mercury-users] GUI Toolkits and Mercury

[Julien Fischer]

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Ralph Becket wrote:

> > > We were considering a binding to wxWidgets.  Indeed we even offered
> > > it as an honours project this year but there were no takers amongst
> > > the students.
> >
> > Wasn't the honours project for developing a more declarative GUI?
>
> Yes: there's nothing particularly challenging about just adding a
> wrapper to an existing GUI library.  And as researchers, we're
> interested in exploring better ways of building GUIs: current methods
> are really pretty awful.
>

My meaning here was that the declarative binding would be written
on top of wxWidgets; we certainly had no intention of having the whole
thing written from scratch.

Cheers,
Julien.


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