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Re:PHP Graphic User Interface Library by jack9 on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @09:47PM (#17454806)
No right click is a pretty big deal breaker for any application I would want to develop.

https://github.com/gabrielrcouto/php-gui/issues/46

If there are problems hooking up something as simple as a new mouseclick, the library is prohibitively primitive.

Re:PHP Graphic User Interface Library by brti on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @09:15AM (#17449870)
I would honestly like to see how this holds up against Electron in performance. I know that may be setting the bar a bit low, considering one is a bundled chromium, and this just seems to interact with UI libraries directly.

Thought I don't know if PHP would be my first pick if I wanted to develop a desktop application. Then again Electron, and JS wouldn't be either.

Re:PHP Graphic User Interface Library by juliangoldsmith on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @09:48AM (#17450127)
My brief experience with PHP was pretty good. I remember it being fairly nice to work with, and really easy to get up and running with.

The choice of a Pascal program to do the actual drawing was interesting. I'd heard of Lazarus, but hadn't seen it used before.

Re:PHP Graphic User Interface Library by astrodust on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @05:45PM (#17453826)
"Fairly nice" compared to what?

PHP is easy to get started with, but it's amazingly baroque in terms of language design. It's the ultimate in "outsider art" becoming mainstream.

Re:PHP Graphic User Interface Library by ausjke on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @11:00AM (#17450742)
This is a crowded area with python-gui and even tcl/tk, i.e. script language for desktop GUI development
Re:PHP Graphic User Interface Library by lessclue on Tuesday July 03, 2018 @11:30AM (#17450983)
That doesn't sound very crowded.