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Programming graphical user interfaces with Scheme

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2003

ERICK GALLESIO  and
MANUEL SERRANO
ERICK GALLESIO
Affiliation:
Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, 650, route des Colles, B.P. 145, F-06903 Sophia-Antipolis, Cedex, France (e-mail: [email protected])
MANUEL SERRANO
Affiliation:
Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis, 650, route des Colles, B.P. 145, F-06903 Sophia-Antipolis, Cedex, France (e-mail: [email protected])
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Abstract

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This paper presents Biglook, a widget library for an extended version of the Scheme programming language. It uses classes of a Clos-like object layer to represent widgets and Scheme closures to handle graphical events. Combining functional and object-oriented programming styles yields an original application programming interface that advocates a strict separation between the implementation of the graphical interfaces and the user-associated commands, enabling compact source code. The Biglook implementation separates the Scheme programming interface and the native back-end. This permits different ports for Biglook. The current version uses GTK+ and Swing graphical toolkits, while the previous release used Tk.

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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 13 , Issue 5 , September 2003 , pp. 839 - 866
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2003 Cambridge University Press
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