[erlang-questions] GUI development with Erlang

[Alan Gingras]

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).
> 
>     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
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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. 
> > 
> >         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.
> > > 
> > >             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.
> > > > 
> > > >                 Alan
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