[erlang-questions] Erlang GUIs

[Roberto Saccon]

Mariano, XUL sounds interesting in theory, but there might be show-stoppers:

Is there any Erlang XPCOM interface ?

XUL is  XML, which requires tools for efficient editing, does such a
tool exist and does it fit into your workflow ?

regards
Roberto


On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Mariano Guerra
<luismarianoguerra@REDACTED> wrote:
> 2008/3/15 Dale Harvey <harveyd@REDACTED>:
>
> > 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)
>
>  Hi, im new here, I started learning erlang by reading the book of joe
>  armostrong.
>
>  I think a good approach will be to write some kind of wrapper or
>  utility library around XUL[1] to output a feature rich GUI over a web
>  server, then you have the best of both worlds.  A great and unified
>  GUI and all written on erlang (some javascript will be needed but
>  that's not a problem I guess).
>
>  Here are some nice examples (requires a gecko based browser);
>  * http://www.faser.net/mab/chrome/content/mab.xul
>  * http://xulplanet.com/testcases/example-viewer.xul
>  * firefox/seamonkey/thunderbird/songbird
>  * http://songbirdnest.com/
>
>  you can use XulRunner[2] or Prism[3] to run "desktop applications" or
>  just give the user an URL.
>
>  by using this as the GUI library you have a lot of advantages, you
>  have a desktop look and feel, transition to a web applications is
>  realy easy, you dont have bindings, the GUI is described on separated
>  files, platform independence etc.
>
>  Hope that helps :P
>
>  [1] http://www.xulplanet.com/
>  [2] http://developer.mozilla.org/es/docs/XULRunner
>  [3] http://wiki.mozilla.org/Prism
>
>
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