[aplusdev] Win port revisited (Cross Platform GUI)

[stevan apter]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Olivier Lefevre" <Olivier.Lefevre at genedata.com>
To: <aplusdev at d13.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [aplusdev] Win port revisited (Cross Platform GUI)


> > Here are some possibilities for cross platform GUI for A+.
> > 6. Write and XML-RPC client and server for A+ and communicate with GUI
> > client written in Python, Java, VB, etc.
>
> That is more or less the approach that K will reportedly take with its
> next version (dubbed K4; they are skipping 3 for some reason).  The new
> Java front-end was presented at the last APL conference. Mike Rosenberg
> was supposed to post a write-up on the K mailing list but so far he
hasn't,
> so there is not much information available on the design yet.

we handed out both papers at the conference.

>
> That seems to me to be the way to go if it works well. It's just so much
> more flexible than linking the engine and the GUI at the source level.

i think so too.  but you'll never match the raw speed of the latter.

>
> Regards,
>
> -- O.L.
>
>