[plt-scheme] Announce: mzgtk2 release 2 version 2.6.10.002

Dear Chongkai,

I'll do that some time in the future, but it has no priority at the moment
I'm too busy working on a homeopathy program, using mzgtk2.

The main reason I started the project some years ago, was because
I wanted a solid portable widget for a GUI for bigloo. In the
process I switched to PLT Scheme, mainly because it implements
the R5RS standard much better and macro support is fabulous.

I did look a littlebit to MrEd. Not in depth however. I still wanted
a solid widget base that is constantly under development and that
is portable enough for Windows/Linux/UNIX/Mac OS. Gtk
provided me with what I wanted, so I went with that.

The binding code for MzGtk2 is also based on ROOS, an OO
system that is very similar to perl's OO system. I always liked
perl's OO system for its simplicity.

--Hans

Chongkai Zhu schreef:
> Hi Hans,
>
> Would you please discuss the difference between MzGtk2 and MrEd 
> (and any other GUI toolkits for MzScheme)?
> Thanks.
>
> Chongkai
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema" <hdnews at gawab.com>
> To: "mzscheme Mailing List" <plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2007 7:24 AM
> Subject: [plt-scheme] Announce: mzgtk2 release 2 version 2.6.10.002
>
>
>   
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I've released mzgtk2, subversion 002, based on the header files of
>> Gtk+ 2.10.6. You should be able to compile mzgtk2 for Gtk+ 2.4.x
>> and up.
>>
>> Changes:
>>
>> Added support for PLT Scheme threads in the MzGtk2 distribution.
>> What MzGtk2 does is install a timer function in the event loop of
>> Gtk+-2.x which runs about every millisecond. This function calls
>> scheme_use_fuel() to give PLT Scheme the oppertunity to run threads.
>>
>> More information on:
>>
>> http://www.elemental-programming.org/wiki/mzgtk2-mzgtk2-making.html
>>
>> Screenshots:
>>
>> http://www.elemental-programming.org/wiki/mzgtk2-screenshots.html
>>
>> Changelog:
>>
>> http://www.elemental-programming.org/wiki/mzgtk2-ChangeLog.html
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema
>>
>>     
>
>
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