[erlang-questions] GUI development with Erlang

[Richard Carlsson]

Joe did that back in 2004 - See https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1022472


        /Richard

2017-12-06 9:04 GMT+01:00 Zachary Kessin <zkessin@REDACTED>:

> I had thought it would be an interesting idea to build a GUI toolset
> around Erlang such that each widget on screen was a process. That being
> said I think to develop such a toolkit would probably cost on the order of
> $1,000,000 (Total guess on the number).
>
> If I had to develop a desktop app with Erlang I would probably use
> something like Electra to do a virtual browser with an Elm Frontend.
>
> Zach
> ᐧ
>
> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Sergej Jurečko <sergej.jurecko@REDACTED>
> wrote:
>
>> What we did when we wanted to ship a GUI app with Erlang was running erl
>> in the background and communicate over stdin/stdout.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sergej
>>
>>
>> On 5 Dec 2017, at 09:07, Alex S. <alex0player@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>> For what it's worth, you can always implement your view and controller in
>> something like C#/F#, and your model in Erlang, and hook them up via TCP.
>> Alternatively, there was an Erlang-toF# compiler floating around I believe.
>>
>> 2017-12-03 22:43 GMT+03:00 Alan Gingras <alangingras@REDACTED>:
>>
>>> Has anyone tried using Windows Forms (.net) with Erlang?  This would be
>>> in a similar fashion to way Python can use Windows Forms.  On Linux I
>>> believe this would be Mono (http://www.mono-project.com/d
>>> ocs/gui/winforms/).  Basically I think I’m looking for something
>>> similar to Python’s “import” and C#’s “using” features.  If no one has
>>> anything, any hints on how a feature like this might be implemented.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Basically, I have been working on implementing genetic programming in
>>> Erlang and would like to provide a GUI front end.  The WxWidgets front end
>>> that comes with Erlang is difficult at best.  I’ve used several different
>>> GUI kits on *nix and Windows platforms but WxWidgets seems the most
>>> difficult for me.  So I’m trying to see what else is available.  I followed
>>> Joe Armstrong’s quest earlier this year and didn’t see where he came up
>>> with anything.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
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