Re: Current status of guile-gnome/guile-gtk?

[Neil Jerram]

>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Gribble <address@hidden> writes:

    Bill> On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:09:26PM +0100, Neil Jerram wrote:
    >> You might want quickly to check out the components in my
    >> guile-gui package, available at
    >> http://www.ossau.uklinux.net/guile/index.html.  This provides
    >> connections between Gtk widgets and input and output ports,
    >> basically.

    Bill> As I understand the above, this would be useful for (say)
    Bill> putting a Guile repl in a gtk text widget.

Yes.

    Bill>                                             It would not be
    Bill> useful for using Guile to construct and operate a Gtk GUI,
    Bill> correct?

Correct, since you can already do that with guile-gtk.

    Bill> I'm actually trying to do the latter, i.e. create widgets
    Bill> from Scheme, pass them lambdas as callbacks, etc.

Yes - these features are already provided by guile-gtk.

Unless you are talking about defining a new kind of widget (as opposed
to just instantiating one of the standard kinds) - I don't believe
that guile-gtk supports this yet.

        Neil