GUI Programming (specific to Clojure as well as functional languages in general)

[David James]

Just wanted to make a note of one of the topics we talked about today
relating to GUI's:

1. GUI programming for Clojure (i.e. take advantage of Java libraries)
* Swing may be the first that pops in people's head, but you might
enjoy taking a look at some alternatives listed here:
http://leepoint.net/notes-java/GUI/misc/80gui-generator.html
* Swing, Qt, GTK, and Cocoa are mentioned in this thread:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=350683
* Doing GUI's in Clojure: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/233171/what-is-the-best-way-to-do-gui-in-clojure
* Stu Halloway talks about Java GUI's here as applied to "four
"Java.next" languages to demonstrate these concepts: Clojure, Groovy,
JRuby, and Scala": http://blog.thinkrelevance.com/2008/8/12/java-next-2-java-interop
* The Clojure page on Java Interoperability: http://clojure.org/java_interop

2. What would a GUI library written in functional style look like?
We talked about how GUI libraries seem to be written in OO style. I
was curious what a GUI library might look like for a functional
language.

I did a few pages of Googling and wanted to share some interesting
links. This one, "GUI Programming with Function Logic Languages",
seems to do a good job of talking about some of the things that Conrad
mentioned during our discussion: http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~antoy/Courses/TPFLP/lectures/GUI/slides.pdf

Here are some links relating to Java GUI's:
* "F3 - Functional GUI Development for Java" is blogged here with some
good comments: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1832
* "F3 is now called JavaFX" - http://blogs.sun.com/chrisoliver/entry/javafx#comments

And if you are interested in GUI libraries for other functional
languages:
* TkGofer, "a graphical user interface library ... It provides a
convenient way to develop window-based applications in the pure,
functional programming language Gofer [1], which is a subset of
Haskell." http://www.springerlink.com/content/w4x210r557g6578m/
* "FranTk - a declarative GUI language for Haskell" might be of
interest: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=351250

-David

[Luke VanderHart]

Thanks for putting this together... The articles on functional
programming and GUIs are particularly interesting. Definitely some
good reading there.

By the way, if anyone has questions about Swing, I can try to answer
them... I've used it a fair amount.

Thanks,
-Luke VanderHart

On Dec 7, 6:22 pm, David James <davidj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just wanted to make a note of one of the topics we talked about today
> relating to GUI's:
>
> 1. GUI programming for Clojure (i.e. take advantage of Java libraries)
> * Swing may be the first that pops in people's head, but you might
> enjoy taking a look at some alternatives listed here:http://leepoint.net/notes-java/GUI/misc/80gui-generator.html
> * Swing, Qt, GTK, and Cocoa are mentioned in this thread:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=350683

> * Doing GUI's in Clojure:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/233171/what-is-the-best-way-to-do-...

> * Stu Halloway talks about Java GUI's here as applied to "four
> "Java.next" languages to demonstrate these concepts: Clojure, Groovy,
> JRuby, and Scala":http://blog.thinkrelevance.com/2008/8/12/java-next-2-java-interop
> * The Clojure page on Java Interoperability:http://clojure.org/java_interop
>
> 2. What would a GUI library written in functional style look like?
> We talked about how GUI libraries seem to be written in OO style.  I
> was curious what a GUI library might look like for a functional
> language.
>
> I did a few pages of Googling and wanted to share some interesting
> links.  This one, "GUI Programming with Function Logic Languages",
> seems to do a good job of talking about some of the things that Conrad
> mentioned during our discussion:http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~antoy/Courses/TPFLP/lectures/GUI/slides.pdf
>
> Here are some links relating to Java GUI's:
> * "F3 - Functional GUI Development for Java" is blogged here with some
> good comments:http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1832

> * "F3 is now called JavaFX" -http://blogs.sun.com/chrisoliver/entry/javafx#comments