Purebasic meets newLISP

[pjot]

Hi Hans-Peter,



Well, I do not know if your application works in Linux too, but then you'ld only have 2 installers: the GTK-server and your newLisp application. On every Linux distribution GTK already is installed by default.



Greetz,

Peter

[newdep]

Typo.. its Gtk-server... Im too bussy today ;-)

[nigelbrown]

Re: Since it is compiled, no runtime-GUI generation with dynamic callbacks is possible,



I've not seen the code but a compiled program can still be variable in how it builds a gui

if the calling method is dynamic and it doesn't just use a resource file type approach?



Nigel

[HPW]

Nigel,



of cource you are right. You can have a compiled code which generates dynamic GUI's.



But the most flexible approach is possible with interpreted newLISP generating interpreted TK-GUI-code.

[nigelbrown]

What about NewLisp dynamically creating html pages/forms it then serves out with httpd?

Or dynamically making php/being called by php (served out by another server)?



Nigel

[HPW]

OK, OK



simple formula:



newLISP = endless possibiltys



;-)





"the greatest single programming language ever designed"



- Alan Kay, on Lisp (from Graham's site)

[pjot]

Hi HPW,



In this thread we were discussing the amount of installers with GTK-server:

With the third installer I mean my own files with the newLISP-logic.

So anyway this is not so elegant as the possibilitys with TK.

But may be the GTK guys get there in the future.

We (the newLISP users) have the choice.

Accidentaly I have prepared an example ZIP package, which includes eveything you need to run a newLisp program. It is the UDP demo program converted to an EXE, also the GTK-server and all necessary DLL's are in the ZIP:



http://www.gtk-server.org/UDP-Chat.zip">http://www.gtk-server.org/UDP-Chat.zip



Just unzip and run the VBS starter "chat.vbs" (no virus in there).



It's just an example on how a newLisp program could be distributed without the tedious procedure of going through all kinds of installers... The ZIP file also could have been a self-extractable ZIP, or an NSIS installer, or whatever.



Peter

[HPW]

Hi Peter,



Thanks for the sample distribution.

The newLISP developer can now choose between the options.