From: Jessica Tallon <tsyesika@tsyesika.se>
To: Lee Thomas <leet22303be@gmail.com>
Cc: 57379@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#57379: GUI toolkit for Guile 3.0?
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:29:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mtbtrffm.fsf@tsyesika.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANYin9UhtSCBZ3dx3UnOzd=iTyPZVkjJUsyZFBm63VHHfHSjGw@mail.gmail.com>
Lee Thomas <leet22303be@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi. I hope I'm submitting this correctly; please tell me if I'm wrong. I'm
> trying to at least prototype a GUI in the same way that in Python I can
> write "import gi" and proceed to create a GTK window, add buttons and
> menubars and toolbars, etc. I've tried the various online sites, but none
> of them have succeeded for me even with "use-modules", so I'm thinking
> they've not been updated for Guile 3.0 yet. And that's fine; I understand
> the massive effort involved. I would actually like to know if one of the
> projects is slated to move forward, so I can volunteer to help. And I don't
> care if that toolkit is for GTK or some other platform.
>
> For my environment, I'm running guile 3.0.8 under the latest guix, and I've
> done upgrades, but I admit to being a guix n00b. I have guix running atop
> Ubuntu 22.04, if that's relevant.
>
> I will assume that I should report my problems with guix installing the
> various toolkit packages not here, but to a guix mailing list.
>
> Finally, if there's no GUI toolkit for Guile coming anytime soon, then I
> can write my app in C and link Guile into it. I've done the linking
> successfully several times for other projects. But it would be really nice
> to have a simple Guile script that launches a GUI, just as I can have a
> simple Python script do the same. The rest of my app's code is in Guile
> Scheme.
>
> Thanks in advance, but I hope to follow up.
Hello,
I've tested making some basic GTK guis with the `guile-gi` package. It
might be worth taking a look at that. The project is located on
Github[1], it's also packaged for Gnu Guix.
Hope that helps.
Thanks,
Jessica.
[1] - https://github.com/spk121/guile-gi
--
Thanks,
Jessica.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-24 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-24 2:35 bug#57379: GUI toolkit for Guile 3.0? Lee Thomas
2022-08-24 12:29 ` Jessica Tallon [this message]
2022-08-24 16:05 ` Lee Thomas
2022-08-24 18:55 ` Jessica Tallon
2022-08-24 20:03 ` David Pirotte
2022-08-24 21:49 ` Lee Thomas
2022-08-26 2:27 ` David Pirotte
2022-08-26 20:03 ` Lee Thomas
2022-08-26 20:35 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-08-26 21:11 ` Lee Thomas
2022-08-27 8:30 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-08-28 23:04 ` David Pirotte
2022-08-28 22:42 ` David Pirotte
2022-08-29 2:32 ` Lee Thomas
2022-08-29 9:11 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-08-29 9:12 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-08-29 16:54 ` David Pirotte
2022-08-29 18:22 ` Lee Thomas
2022-08-29 23:23 ` David Pirotte
2022-08-30 18:33 ` Lee Thomas
2022-09-01 7:17 ` adriano
2022-09-03 4:26 ` David Pirotte
2022-08-29 19:55 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-08-30 18:24 ` Lee Thomas
2022-09-03 4:15 ` David Pirotte
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