That's correct - I haven't yet got a stable solution for using ghci with wxHaskell - Jeremy
On 18 May 2011 20:33, Conal Elliott <co...@conal.net> wrote: > Last I heard, wx still had the problem of crashing its host the second time > one opens a window (which is typical in ghci). And last I heard, Jeremy > O'Donoghue (cc'd) was exploring solutions but had very little time to pursue > them. - Conal > > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:42 AM, Tom Murphy <amin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > My conclusion was that GLFW-b (on hackage) is the best we have right >> > now. I think we could do even better than the C libraries out there >> > by writing the GLUT/GLFW/etc implementation purely in Haskell. We >> > already have x11 and gtk bindings for the linux support. We have >> > win32 api bindings for windows support. What we are lacking is good >> > low level support for OSX GUI programming. Once we have that it's not >> > too much of a stretch to use cabal to glue it together into a cross >> > platform library. I believe that's the right way to go for the long >> > term. Improving GLFW-b is a good short-term route. >> >> Would it be possible to do it with wx? There would be a much larger >> potential developer pool, since it's cross-platform. (Not getting away >> from C libraries, but they're stable). >> >> >> > And just to say it one more time, I can use all the help I can get. >> > There are a lot of yaks to be shaved. My hope is that if we all shave >> > one yak then we'll quickly have the libraries we need to do some >> > serious graphics hacking in Haskell. We already have many good >> > libraries for it, we just need to improve and polish a few key >> > libraries. The momentum is here and a few people have already jumped >> > in. Time to get on board! >> >> Count me as onboard; I'm just not sure which ship I'm on yet. >> >> Tom >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > >
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