[erlang-questions] Erlang GUIs

[Dale Harvey]

I would certainly put a vote in for yaws / a server based application
with a flash / javascript front end.

Both flash and javascript have widget libraries that are at least as
easy to use and powerful than their desktop counterparts.

If you are planning to have a heavily customised interface i would suggest
something like jquery / dojo / prototype.

If you are planning on using a more familiar widget set then extjs or
flex are probably better places to start looking.

if you need more os intergration than traditional flash / js can
do Adobe Air is another product to look at. (or the previously
mentioned swing / wxwidgets)

On 15/03/2008, Bob Cowdery <bob@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> 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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