[erlang-questions] Erlang GUIs

[Bob Cowdery]

David

I've tried three approaches, all of which work well depending on what
you want to do. There are of course other approaches.

wxErlang is an interface to the wxWidgets library and although it's
coverage is not 100% yet I've found it stable and good enough to write
reasonably complex GUI's. This is good if you want to stay entirely in
the Erlang world.

Java and Swing using the jInterface library. This also works very well
if you don't mind straying away from Erlang and don't mind some code
bloat in the interfacing.

Yaws and Erlyweb make a good pair but it depends on your interface
complexity and usability. You might actually end up with a good bit of
your ui code in java script using perhaps one of the Ajax libraries like
DoJo.

Just my pennyworth.

- Bob

On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 17:17 -0500, David Mercer wrote:
> Speaking of which, what are the best ways of creating GUIs to interact with
> Erlang?  Gs?  Run Yaws or Erlyweb or something and use the web browser?  I
> heard Joe once mention using Flash as the UI front end?
> 
> What is the state of the art right now?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> David
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: erlang-questions-bounces@REDACTED
> [mailto:erlang-questions-bounces@REDACTED] On Behalf Of Erik Reitsma
> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 03:06
> To: Bengt Kleberg
> Cc: Erlang mailing list
> Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] erlang sucks
> 
> If you count libraries: after rewriting a GUI from iv to tcl I gave up
> when tcl was removed. I guess gs has been around long enough to consider
> it, but then again there are still GUI alternatives floating around, and
> I am afraid they will become better than gs and gs will be replaced.
> 
> *Erik. 
> 
> > Out of interest:
> > Does anybody know of _anything_ that has been removed, ever?
> > 
> > 
> > bengt
> > 
> > On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:53 +0100, Mats Cronqvist wrote:
> > > Hynek Vychodil wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Mats Cronqvist 
> > > > <mats.cronqvist@REDACTED 
> > <mailto:mats.cronqvist@REDACTED>> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >       or are you saying there is a need for several 
> > 'and'? in that case i
> > > >     disagree.
> > > >
> > > > ...
> > > > I think there is no way to change it, because if you 
> > remove 'andalso' 
> > > > and use 'and' in programmers manner lazy behaviour, you 
> > will break 
> > > > some legacy code a vice versa. This change is impossible. 
> > You can be 
> > > > not agree with it. You can argue against it, but it is 
> > all what you 
> > > > can do with it.
> > >   if you go back a few posts, you'll see that i try to make it very 
> > > clear that nothing will be removed (at least not for the 
> > next few years).
> > >  
> > >   mats
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