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I've only had limited experience of Rebol View (VID & R3-GUI) so I don't feel qualified enough to give you a clear answer. However I can provide you with some
by draegtun 11y ago
I've only had limited experience of Rebol View (VID & R3-GUI) so I don't feel qualified enough to give you a clear answer.
However I can provide you with some HN comments that contain Rebol GUI code that I've posted here in the past:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7069311 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7069311
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8624722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8624722
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9570049 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9570049
NB. If you follow the thread up in the first link you'll find GUI comparisons with TCL & other languages.
You may find more insight into the authors mind from snippets found in previous posts:
http://prog21.dadgum.com/159.html http://prog21.dadgum.com/159.html - "The best attempt I've seen is the UI description sub-language of REBOL. Creating a basic window with labeled buttons is a one-liner. Clearly all wasn't perfect in REBOL-ville, as a burst of excitement in the late 1990s was tempered with a long period of inactivity, and some features of the language never quite lived up to their initial promises.
These days HTML is the most reasonable approach to anything involving fonts and images and interaction. It's not as beautifully direct as REBOL, and being trapped in a browser is somewhere between limiting and annoying, but the visual toolkit is there, and it's ubiquitous. (For the record, I would have solved the "list all the filenames..." problem by generating HTML, but firing up a browser to display the result is a heavy-handed solution.)"
http://prog21.dadgum.com/66.html http://prog21.dadgum.com/66.html - "A handful of language designers have tried to make GUI programming as easy as traditional programming. The Tk library for TCL, which is still the foundation for Python's out-of-the-box IDE, allows basic UI creation with simple, declarative statements. REBOL is a more recent incarnation of the same idea, that sample code involving windows and user input and graphics should be a handful of lines, not multiple pages of wxWindows fussing. I wish more people were working on such things."