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From: mhx@iae.nl (mhx)
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Subject: Re: GUI applications in Forth
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:45:53 +0000
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On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 8:03:58 +0000, anthk wrote:
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> As for the UI, Tk (from TCL)  procedural widget building seems
> ideal for Forth.

I thought the same 20 years ago. At that time (?) it was difficult
to serve the messageloop of Tcl/Tk (even more difficult than the
Windows messagepump). The second problem was that I didn't want
to learn Tcl/Tk to let the GUI do something useful that was
*not* an example already.

Now iForth has CALLBACKs and the OSs have better multi-thread
support, the former problem may have been solved, the latter
one probably not.

I have to say that GUIs are really overrated, at least for
what I want to do. However, they do have functionality that
can be handy (like printing anything in whatever format,
graphically manipulating schematics and such).

-marcel