Re: [Chicken-users] gui api design -- some thought -- long mail

[felix winkelmann]

On 2/7/07, minh thu <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi All.
>
> I'm aware of two kinds of GUI event response mechanisms.
> (I'm dropping phooey or cello since I don't know them.
> Furthermore, their implementation is probably too different
> of what I want to talk here.)

Many thanks for your enlightening discourse. Exposing the event-queue
is actually a pretty good idea, since it allows the processing of system
events completely on the Scheme side. I have played with ZMW once,
but found it quite slow. The approach is interesting, though. I think it
would make sense to write a very lowlevel abstraction layer (event-fetching,
toplevel window handling, basic widget operators) and do anything fancy
on top of that.


cheers,
felix