From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jessica Tallon Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: bug#57379: GUI toolkit for Guile 3.0? Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:29:43 +0200 Message-ID: <87mtbtrffm.fsf@tsyesika.se> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40816"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 57379@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lee Thomas Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 24 14:44:06 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oQpjp-000ATj-Sf for guile-bugs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:44:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50228 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQpjo-0006wd-Sm for guile-bugs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 08:44:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53256) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQpYA-0007lU-Hs for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 08:32:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:56150) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oQpYA-0006xV-8j for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 08:32:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oQpYA-0007nP-55 for bug-guile@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 08:32:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Jessica Tallon Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-guile@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:32:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 57379 X-GNU-PR-Package: guile X-Debbugs-Original-Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org, 57379@debbugs.gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by 57379-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B57379.166134430429942 (code B ref 57379); Wed, 24 Aug 2022 12:32:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 57379) by debbugs.gnu.org; 24 Aug 2022 12:31:44 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45899 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oQpXr-0007ms-IR for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 08:31:43 -0400 Original-Received: from mout-p-103.mailbox.org ([80.241.56.161]:56106) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oQpXm-0007mY-LB for 57379@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 08:31:42 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp1.mailbox.org (smtp1.mailbox.org [IPv6:2001:67c:2050:b231:465::1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-384) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mout-p-103.mailbox.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4MCQSd043qz9sQD; Wed, 24 Aug 2022 14:31:29 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4MCQSd043qz9sQD X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-guile" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:10324 Archived-At: Lee Thomas 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.