Does anyone know of a GUI library for the Io language

Question

Io is a nice cross-platform prototype-based object-oriented language.

Does anyone know of any GUI library for Io?

Io's name does not make it Google friendly.

Answer 1

The 'official' GUI library is called Flux (formerly called Ion) and can be found in the main repository under

http://github.com/stevedekorte/io/tree/master/addons/Flux/

It is based on `OpenGL and thus platform independent (runs on any platform supporting OpenGL).

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Some examples on how to use Flux can be found in the samples directory:

http://github.com/stevedekorte/io/tree/master/addons/Flux/samples/

Some of them may not be working. Bug reports are welcome :-).
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The GTK+ Binding was created a while ago and is not maintained anymore as far as I know. I would not recommend using it unless someone wants update it to compile with a current version and maintain it.

Answer 2

GTK+ Bindings for Io

Answer 3

According to this article there is a library for Cairo bindings. Also I noticed IO library for GTK+ in their projects list but the link seems to be dead.

If you are able to reach that (dead) page, please share it here.

Answer 4

According to this, you can use GNUstep on linux and OSX. I have played with GNUstep for a few hours some day and found it rather pleasant.

Answer 5

According to this, there are:

Io has bindings for many multiplatform libraries including Sockets, OpenGL, FreeType, PortAudio and others as well as some modules for transparent distributed objects and a user interface toolkit written in Io.

Additionally, you can use Cocoa through the objective C bindings, and the languages author was at one time working on an openGL based interface called Ion. I have seen the words 'IoDesktop' thrown around a lot too.