Comments for Coherent Graphics Ltd http://coherentpdf.com/blog Ocaml and PDF and suchlike Sat, 25 May 2013 21:29:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on A Proper GUI for OCaml (Part One) by Paolo http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=4#comment-2 Paolo Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:35:00 +0000 http://coherentpdf.com/blog/?p=4#comment-2 Very interesting! I think OCaml is a wonderful language, but it still lacks in a decent GUI toolkit, something as complete as QT, for example.<br/><br/>Some time ago I had the idea to link two executables together via socket communication, but I had no more spare time to develop it. I'm glad someone successfully realized a similar project.<br/><br/>At what level the communication takes place? In my original design a GUI entirely written using QT (C++, Python) talks with an underling OCaml process using DBus. QT actually wraps DBus messages into its signal/slot paradigm, so it should be not too difficult to create the link, since a binding for DBus is available for OCaml.<br/><br/>In this design no "mouse event" are passed between the two processes, but only high level "signals" have to be passed. In my idea this should simplify the design a lot. Very interesting! I think OCaml is a wonderful language, but it still lacks in a decent GUI toolkit, something as complete as QT, for example.

Some time ago I had the idea to link two executables together via socket communication, but I had no more spare time to develop it. I’m glad someone successfully realized a similar project.

At what level the communication takes place? In my original design a GUI entirely written using QT (C++, Python) talks with an underling OCaml process using DBus. QT actually wraps DBus messages into its signal/slot paradigm, so it should be not too difficult to create the link, since a binding for DBus is available for OCaml.

In this design no “mouse event” are passed between the two processes, but only high level “signals” have to be passed. In my idea this should simplify the design a lot.

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