[mercury-users] GUI Toolkits and Mercury

[Julien Fischer]

On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Jonathan Morgan wrote:

> Julien Fischer wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> The spec suggested that it could use anything (within reason) that the
> student wanted to - among the suggestions were the already existing OpenGL
> and Tk.  Writing an entire new binding would not leave as much time for
> exploring the declarative GUI, which would need research skills and
> creativity, what you want from Honours students.
>

The spec was intentionally rather broad - I just seem to recall some
discussion of wxWidgets at the time.

Cheers,
Julien.

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