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Gerardo Horvilleur wrote: > I just compiled guile-gtk-0.14 with gtk 1.0.6 and guile 1.3, and had > no problem at all with building & installing guile-gtk (Red Hat Linux > 5.2). > > The problems start when you try to run the examples...Most of them > don't work at all, some of them manage to display something before > crashing, > and only "HelloWorld" seems to be OK! I guess the problem is you installed for gtk+1.0.x When you use the development series 1.1.x most of the examples work. Right now I'm using gtk1.1.15 > > This is probably the wrong mailing list to complain about these problems > (a GTK mailing list would be more apropiate), but I am wondering if > using GTK > with Guile is the right thing to do? GTK is a nice toolkit and if I > where to > write a C program that required any kind of GUI widgets it probably > would be > my first choice. But it doesn't seem to be a good match for Guile. Gtk and guile are the perfect match. Programming GUI with guile is very easy and poweful enough for a serious programmer. The only drawback is that not all of the widgets are supported but that will be corrected with time. Right now I'm working in an HTML editor with gile-gtk. Take a look: http://erin.linuxbox.com/galway You need gtk1.1.15 >I would > prefer to see toolkit based on tk (from tcl/tk). There is an R4RS interpreter called STK. Ariel RIos ITESM CEM Atizapán, México.