Re: Multi-platform GUIs, CBind, and Sound libraries...

Rodolphe Saugier <[email protected]> writes:

> Here at IRCAM we are experimenting strategies to port OpenMusic,
> a visual programming environment dedicated to music, from MCL (Mac)
>  to ACL. Other visual tools will be built on top of OpenMusic, too.
> (My colleague Jean Bresson already contacted people at Franz concerning
> this subject)
>
> As a part of this process, I have some naïve questions to submit to you all:
>
> - What multi-platform GUI library would you recommend ? (working at
> least on Win32 & MacOSX)
>    We would be particularly interested by advanced capabilities (=
>    sprites, bitmap, "beautiful" widgets, etc...)...
>
> - Is CBind a sufficiently mature tool to be used to access C/C++
> libraries on
>    Win32 and MacOSX platforms ? My idea would be to use it to access
>    sound & possibly GUI libraries.

cbind is a very good thing.  But it isn't magic.  You might have to
fiddle with its output when rebinding something complex.

Having read the sources for wxWindows and GTK+, I would look at GTK+.
Many think highly of wxWindows.  But, in my opinion, GTK+ is better
engineered.  I have no experience programming GTK+ on Windows or Mac,
but it is available in some form.  Allegro 6.2 ships with an
experimental cbinded GTK+ interface tested on Linux.  I spent several
weeks programming it.  It seems to work.  I also found the GTK+
documentation and code much easier to read than wxWindows.

Consider asking on comp.lang.lisp.  This is a pretty inert mailing
list.

-- 
John M. Adams