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6279 :: Is there a simple example on how to create a Windows UI

• mrweb (orginal) [2020-05-01T18:43:45+02:00] view original

  Hi,

  I'm still deciding if I should learn Pascal or Nim. I want to create a Windows GUI app.

  Using a Pascal tutorial, I could recreate a simple example in less than five minutes. Just a window with a button that, when clicked, shows a "hello world" popup.

  I know that it will take longer with Nim, but I'd like to get a feeling on how does it works, preferably using one of the most popular libraries at this time. (perhaps nimx or wNim?).

  Is there a tutorial on how to create a very simple GUI app with Nim?

  Thanks!

  On a side note, coming from Python and without a background in programming, I want to create a GUI desktop hotel reservation app. After doing some research on several programming languages, I'm still thinking if I should choose Nim or Pascal.

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• Ward (orginal) [2020-05-02T13:15:05+02:00] view original

  This page may help you.

  https://github.com/khchen/wNim/wiki

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• enthus1ast (orginal) [2020-05-04T13:28:29+02:00] view original

  I could have a look at gintro (gtk) or wnim (winapi)

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• kcvinu (orginal) [2020-05-04T22:17:48+02:00] view original

  Any examples of Karax Desktop application in Nim ?

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• Hobbyman (orginal) [2020-05-05T03:14:45+02:00] view original

  Hello all. Just added my (allmost) first item to the forum. Firstly thanks (to whom it concerns) for creating Nim. Very nice language. I come from python.

  About the gui; I firstly looked at non-web desktop-gui's. NimX looked promising (cross-device) but it did not work on my computer (linux). Then thought why not use a webgui for a desktop-app. That way you may lateron easily webize you app. So now i use Jester, but it demands some (a lot) rethinking if you were acustomed to desktop-stuff. (nice youtube-video tutorial-vids exist). However with mobile app platforms getting more popular i thought html-apps are cross-device, but i dont have experience in mobile-development.

  There does not appear to be a promotion towards any gui from the nim-people. Which is good for neutrality, but maybe not so good for creating a larger user-base. Or maybe it is.

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• Wull (orginal) [2020-05-05T14:01:14+02:00] view original

  Hello I use IUP for Windows and Linux desktop UI. One bonus for me is under Windows (with a bit of effort) OLE components are supported.

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• spip (orginal) [2020-05-05T14:17:57+02:00] view original

  Have a look at the Curated Packages under the GUI section to select one that fits your needs.

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• conlaoch (orginal) [2020-05-05T14:45:10+02:00] view original

  Fidget by Treeform looks like a nice simple example... https://github.com/treeform/fidget

  YMMV though as I have been unable to get it to work on OSx. I havent tried it on Windows or Linux yet.

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• mrweb (orginal) [2020-05-06T18:18:01+02:00] view original

  Thanks @conlaoch, although a cross-platform solution would be great, at this time I'm looking for a more stable library to create a production-ready app.

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• conlaoch (orginal) [2020-05-06T18:28:35+02:00] view original

  I wonder what the difficulties would be in using the Lazarus LCL (Open Pascal version of Delphi's VCL) as a gui front end for nim. It already has an IDE to visually design the forms, we would just have to create a tool to link the nim event handlers to the pascal compiled forms.

  It also targets most of the main platforms, Windows, OSx, Linux, IOS, and Android.

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• Araq (orginal) [2020-05-06T21:43:42+02:00] view original

  We used to have an example in Nim showing you how to do that, it's rather simple (and of course with ARC got simpler still...), you can link the produced .o files to the LCL application.

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