[Oz] Who (where and how many) are we?

[Andrew Sadler]

--- Donatien Grolaux <ned at info.ucl.ac.be> wrote: > >
We are working on a generic resource allocation
> engine
> > to be tied into a Java front end.
> >
> > Choosing Mozart over our previous Prolog-based
> engine
> > has allowed some great new features without having
> to
> > resort to 'prolog-hack-arounds'.
> >
> > We were having a look at coming up with a FLTK
> > implementation of QTk so that we could get speedy
> UI
> > across platforms but we opted for a Mozart/Java
> > combination for speed of implementation.
> >
> > FLTK-QTk, when we get the time.
> 
> What is FLTK ?

A cross platform, very light weight, GUI library.


> 
> FYI, we are currently working on a implementation of
> a toolkit similar
> to QTk at the Oz level which will display the user
> interface inside
> Internet browsers (at least Internet Explorer, we'll
> try to make it
> compatible with Netscape later). This toolkit
> (called QHTML) should be
> available in one month or two. It will be as easy to
> use as QTk is, that
> is a declarative way of building the presentation of
> the window and a
> procedural way of dynamically interacting with it.
> The Oz programmer
> will *not* have to learn HTML, DHTML, JavaScript,
> Java or web
> technologies in general, such as QTk doesn't require
> the Oz programmer
> to learn Tcl/Tk which QTk uses as effective toolkit.
> QHTML can be used
> to create pure stand alone applications, as if the
> toolkit was a usual
> stand alone toolkit, or any type of server-client
> web applications.

Now that sounds like a good idea, but making it
cross-browser might be a bit of a headache.  Still,
sounds nice.


> 
> Donatien Grolaux
> 

Andrew Sadler


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