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Chris.Bitmead@misys.com.au writes: > > > I would like to do a port of Motif/Lesstif to guile, along the general > lines of Stk, but I would like some > general advice. > > Motif is pretty object oriented, so I think I need an object system. What > object system should I use? Until guile's own OO system is done, Tinyclos seems to be the choice of many people, especially of those who implemented STk. > > As I understand it, keywords are not a standard part of Scheme, although > they seem useful for > a Motif interface. Does guile have them, and if so should I use them? > Keyword argument are e.g. implemented in SCWM by M. Stachowiak, onthe guile developer's page. > How similar should I make it to the guile Stk port? Should I take that as > an example of a good way > to go, or does it have mistakes that I can now avoid? > > Any other general advice/comments? > > There is xguile, also somewhere on the guile developer page (where the snaps used to be before CVS), which offers interfaces to raw X, motif and athena. Klaus Schilling