[M3devel] UI libraries

[Dirk Muysers]

If I had the time, I would opt for

the IUP portable interface library
(http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/)

Bindings for that one are particularly easy to make.
Only drawback: The next release will implement
UTF-8 text for all platforms (the existing version has
ASCII for Win32 and UTF-8 for GTK).

I would myself like M3 to step back to the good old
SRC-PM3 text system (but UTF-8 encoded)
preferably to  the actual dual CHAR-WCHAR text
machinery).

I also think that it was Microsoft's biggest mistake
to impose 16-bit characters which are still variable
length (think of surrogates) without the advantages
UTF-8 offers. 

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From: "Hendrik Boom" <hendrik at topoi.pooq.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 8:13 PM
To: <m3devel at elegosoft.com>
Subject: [M3devel] UI libraries

> Are there bindings for Modula 3 to use user-interface libraries other 
> than Trestle?
> 
> If so, are any of those libraries cross-platform?
> 
> If not, would it be worth writing such a binding? And for which library?
> 
> -- hendrik