[erlang-questions] GUI development with Erlang
Alan Gingras
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Wed Dec 6 12:43:04 CET 2017
Thanks for the suggestion. I've been trying to keep the work totally in Erlang. Partly because I am trying to become better with Erlang itself and partly out of stubbornness. I had looked at using a browser based GUI but for what I'm doing I really don't want (or need) to be too complicated. One of the other responses suggested using C# to create the front end and communicate with Erlang via TCP. I had thought of that as well, but decided to pursue using pure Erlang but have become stymied by wxErlang and its difficulty. Most likely I will end up pursing the C# (or similar) front end.
Alan
> On December 6, 2017 at 3:04 AM Zachary Kessin <zkessin@REDACTED> wrote:
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> Zach
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> On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Sergej Jurečko <sergej.jurecko@REDACTED mailto:sergej.jurecko@REDACTED > wrote:
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> > > What we did when we wanted to ship a GUI app with Erlang was running erl in the background and communicate over stdin/stdout.
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> > Regards,
> > Sergej
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> > > > > On 5 Dec 2017, at 09:07, Alex S. <alex0player@REDACTED mailto:alex0player@REDACTED > wrote:
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> > > 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.
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> > > 2017-12-03 22:43 GMT+03:00 Alan Gingras <alangingras@REDACTED mailto:alangingras@REDACTED >:
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> > > > 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/docs/gui/winforms/ http://www.mono-project.com/docs/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.
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> > > > 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.
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> > > > Thanks.
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> > > > Alan
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