Lee Thomas <leet2230...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi. I hope I'm submitting this correctly; please tell me if I'm wrong. I'm > trying to at least prototype a GUI in the same way that in Python I can > write "import gi" and proceed to create a GTK window, add buttons and > menubars and toolbars, etc. I've tried the various online sites, but none > of them have succeeded for me even with "use-modules", so I'm thinking > they've not been updated for Guile 3.0 yet. And that's fine; I understand > the massive effort involved. I would actually like to know if one of the > projects is slated to move forward, so I can volunteer to help. And I don't > care if that toolkit is for GTK or some other platform. > > For my environment, I'm running guile 3.0.8 under the latest guix, and I've > done upgrades, but I admit to being a guix n00b. I have guix running atop > Ubuntu 22.04, if that's relevant. > > I will assume that I should report my problems with guix installing the > various toolkit packages not here, but to a guix mailing list. > > Finally, if there's no GUI toolkit for Guile coming anytime soon, then I > can write my app in C and link Guile into it. I've done the linking > successfully several times for other projects. But it would be really nice > to have a simple Guile script that launches a GUI, just as I can have a > simple Python script do the same. The rest of my app's code is in Guile > Scheme. > > Thanks in advance, but I hope to follow up. Hello, I've tested making some basic GTK guis with the `guile-gi` package. It might be worth taking a look at that. The project is located on Github[1], it's also packaged for Gnu Guix. Hope that helps. Thanks, Jessica. [1] - https://github.com/spk121/guile-gi -- Thanks, Jessica.
