I clearly have had way too much time on my hands lately because I have begun to investigate developing a gui toolbox and widgets similar to GTK or Qt only written in pure Julia. My reasons for this are: that for the life of me I cannot figure out GTK, no matter how many tutorials I watch, GTK doe…

This raises a question for me: Is it possible to build a binary that relies on an installed Julia distribution? Does it have to bundle Base and the Stdlibs with it?

Today, the answer is “no”. Tomorrow, “were sufficient resources allocated” is the answer. After all, relocatable code is well understood.

This is quite the interesting discussion. To be honest what I am trying to do is move from Windows into Linux but Access does not work in Linux. I finally have a decent enough grasp on MySql to migrate the data and manage it there but I am really wanting a way to design input forms like in Access.…

[image] jonathanBieler: Working on Gtk.jl is also difficult because you need to have a good understanding of both GTK and Julia’s internals. A lot of GTK designs are also linked to C limitations (GTK has it’s own pseudo object system, memory management,…) and presumably one could do something be…

Please don’t, and I’m 100% sure this has come up before and I’ve given exactly the same reply. Almost all of the lesser used UI framework (and even many of the popular ones) have extremely terrible input method support since most of the developers simply don’t care and don’t use any complex input me…

[image] yuyichao: The last thing we need is a pretty looking UI framework that is non CJK-compatible. This is a very good point. Similarly, handling BiDi languages adds a LOT of complexity: http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/

[image] dlakelan: this great thing which was called something like the “graphics server” (or some such) lol. X windows. reinvented. i too would like a stable, simple gui written in Julia. I’m positive it can be done by leveraging some low level cross platform graphics library which at this …

Can confirm. I wrote a lot of the widgets for Makie and I spent zero time on CJK or BiDi, because I can’t speak any of those languages and don’t have time for anything but my immediate needs. It seems daunting to implement all those requirements correctly, still Makie can be useful even without such…

If you are just making plot there’s no problem. If you are drawing text there are likely not going to be any problem either, Unicode support is usually pretty good these days (people care enough about emoji’s to make them work everywhere). If you are taking input from a standard widget it’s also usu…

Anyone crazy enough to develop a pure Julia GUI toolbox?

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Anyone crazy enough to develop a pure Julia GUI toolbox?

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