Re: Lua for GUI toolkit wrapping?

["Stuart P. Bentley" <stuart@...>]

I'm personally a huge fan of IUP. As stated, it's practically made for Lua 
(it's a Tecgraf project that was hosted on LuaForge for years). It's also 
hugely platform-independent (it's implemented natively on Windows, then in 
GTK for GNOME, KDE, and OS X, then in Motif for pretty much anything else), 
and very simple and flexible (a virtue of its Lua-paralleling design).

http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/
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Subject: Re: Lua for GUI toolkit wrapping?

> Patrick wrote:
> > > probably you are saying about different things - Qt itself and Qt/Lua
> > > binding
> >
> > Absolutely. I am not criticizing QT or any other toolkit, I am just
> > wondering if I am going in the wrong direction. I would like to use Lua
> > with GTK in particular but I am second guessing myself because there
> > seems like quite a small community around it. I can't understand why?
> > Why would anyone want to code a GUI in C/C++ if they had something like 
> > Lua?
> IUP uses GTK, and was practically built for Lua:
> http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/