Re: [gtk-list] A simpler guile-gtk interface

[lutterdc cs purdue edu (David Lutterkort)]

> On Sun Jun  7, Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com> wrote:
> 
> I have started writing a new guile-gtk interface over the existing one.  The 
> goal is to simplify the code and make it more transparent.
> 

Excellent !

> As an example, the new code to create a top-level window with a label in it is 
> as follows:
>   (gtk-widget-show
>    (gtk-top-level
>     ((title "Top-level title"))
>     (gtk-label "here is a label")))
> 
> Attributes of widgets are specified in a property-list-like way.
> Child widgets are automatically inserted into parents and realized.
> 

This is really cool ! The big advantage of using gtk with guile over
vanilla C right now is that it is _much_ easier to get something going in
guile than in C. But it is still not as convenient as it could be. Your
idea is filling a big gap ... I would love to see this in the guile-gtk
distro. Is there any chance to generate the simple-gtk module from
something similar to Marius' gtk.defs ? As I understand, simple-gtk is a
bunch of macros that turn alists into calls of gtk-*; so maybe the
admissible property values could be generated from a description of valid
argument values for the gtk-* calls.

Cheers,
David