Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-06 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Sven Panne wrote: 2013/9/27 Conal Elliott co...@conal.net: [...] Am I mistaken about the current status? I.e., is there a solution for Haskell GUI graphics programming that satisfies the properties I'm looking for (cross-platform, easily buildable, GHCi-friendly, and OpenGL-compatible)? [...]

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-06 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Sven Panne wrote: 2013/9/27 Heinrich Apfelmus apfel...@quantentunnel.de: Actually, I'm reading about WebGL right now, and it appears to me that it should be very easy to support in Threepenny. [...] I am not sure if WebGL is enough: WebGL is basically OpenGL ES 2.0, which is again basically

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-05 Thread Sven Panne
2013/9/27 Heinrich Apfelmus apfel...@quantentunnel.de: Actually, I'm reading about WebGL right now, and it appears to me that it should be very easy to support in Threepenny. [...] I am not sure if WebGL is enough: WebGL is basically OpenGL ES 2.0, which is again basically OpenGL 2.0 plus some

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-05 Thread Sven Panne
2013/9/27 Conal Elliott co...@conal.net: [...] Am I mistaken about the current status? I.e., is there a solution for Haskell GUI graphics programming that satisfies the properties I'm looking for (cross-platform, easily buildable, GHCi-friendly, and OpenGL-compatible)? [...] Time warp! ;-)

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-05 Thread John Lato
I think you've misunderstood Robin's point. The problem is that each of these libraries is platform-specific. Writing an api on top of one is work enough, but writing a cross-platform api that binds to the appropriate platform-specific backend is a major undertaking. On Oct 4, 2013 7:12 PM, Alp

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-04 Thread Alp Mestanogullari
-cafe-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Paul Liu Sent: 30 September 2013 07:18 To: Conal Elliott Cc: Haskell Cafe Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell Hi Conal, I wasn't able to make

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-04 Thread Jake McArthur
...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Paul Liu Sent: 30 September 2013 07:18 To: Conal Elliott Cc: Haskell Cafe Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell Hi Conal, I wasn't able to make it to last

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-04 Thread Alp Mestanogullari
-cafe-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Paul Liu Sent: 30 September 2013 07:18 To: Conal Elliott Cc: Haskell Cafe Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell Hi Conal, I wasn't able to make

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-04 Thread Robin KAY
Dear Alp, Alp Mestanogullari wrote: [snip] I have been willing to have a nice GUI DSEL with good aesthetics for a while. I think the hardest part wouldn't be the API, but really what library we use underneath so that it's cross-platform and easy to install for everyone. But I would love for

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-04 Thread Alp Mestanogullari
If these said libraries let us write a good API on top, then perfect! The problem is to actually pick the ones fulfilling our needs I think, all the major candidatures have pretty serious drawbacks, AFAIK. On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:36 AM, Robin KAY komad...@gekkou.co.uk wrote: Dear Alp, Alp

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-04 Thread Henk-Jan van Tuyl
On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 12:24:25 +0200, Atze Dijkstra a...@uu.nl wrote: Hi, as for wxHaskell, it is currently maintained at https://github.com/wxHaskell/wxHaskell, compilable with wxWidgets 2.9.5 and GHC 7.6. Work is underway to fix various bugs introduced over time by changes in wxWidgets,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-02 Thread Paul Liu
: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell Hi Conal, I wasn't able to make it to last Saturday's FARM track, but I think there was a good chance that Paul would have demonstrated his Euterpea music library, which includes a GUI interface

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-02 Thread Carter Schonwald
Yay! Thanks Paul! It's always good to have more folks confirm the problems are solved than not! Another cool direction 7.8 will allow is using the various llvm ffi bindings from ghci! On Wednesday, October 2, 2013, Paul Liu wrote: Thanks. I've just built GHC HEAD on Mac OS X Lion, and tested

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-02 Thread Atze Dijkstra
Hi, as for wxHaskell, it is currently maintained at https://github.com/wxHaskell/wxHaskell, compilable with wxWidgets 2.9.5 and GHC 7.6. Work is underway to fix various bugs introduced over time by changes in wxWidgets, but we (i.e. https://github.com/wxHaskell?tab=members) hope to release

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-02 Thread Sylvain HENRY
Hi, The best low-level foundation libraries that I know of are the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) [1,2]. They are cross-platform : they support many backends (X11, OpenGL, framebuffer...) and are used on desktops and mobile devices (even to provide games on the French Free ISP

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-02 Thread Conal Elliott
Hi Atze. I'm glad to hear that some work is going into wxHaskell. Do you know about the issue that arose roughly 7-8 years ago that prevented opening more than one top-level window per process? It had to do with a change to initialization techniques, and made wxHaskell no longer useful with GHCi.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-02 Thread Conal Elliott
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell Hi Conal, I wasn't able to make it to last Saturday's FARM track, but I think there was a good chance that Paul would have demonstrated his Euterpea music library, which

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-02 Thread Simon Marlow
:18 To: Conal Elliott Cc: Haskell Cafe Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell Hi Conal, I wasn't able to make it to last Saturday's FARM track, but I think there was a good chance that Paul would have demonstrated his Euterpea music library, which

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-02 Thread Paul Liu
: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell Hi Conal, I wasn't able to make it to last Saturday's FARM track, but I think there was a good chance that Paul would have demonstrated his Euterpea music library, which includes

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-02 Thread Conal Elliott
Of Paul Liu Sent: 30 September 2013 07:18 To: Conal Elliott Cc: Haskell Cafe Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell Hi Conal, I wasn't able to make it to last Saturday's FARM track, but I think

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-10-02 Thread Paul Liu
] On Behalf Of Paul Liu Sent: 30 September 2013 07:18 To: Conal Elliott Cc: Haskell Cafe Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell Hi Conal, I wasn't able to make it to last Saturday's FARM track, but I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-09-30 Thread Paul Liu
Hi Conal, I wasn't able to make it to last Saturday's FARM track, but I think there was a good chance that Paul would have demonstrated his Euterpea music library, which includes a GUI interface (called MUI) written on top of GLFW. I wrote its initial implementation (around 2009?) with a monadic

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-09-30 Thread Conal Elliott
Hi Conrad, Great. The challenge is not specific to Pan, Vertigo, etc. If we can get some low-level GUI platform working with the characteristics I listed, I can resurrect and my high-level libraries accordingly. Any GUI program containing at least one OpenGL window would probably get us most of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-09-28 Thread Rustom Mody
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Conal Elliott co...@conal.net wrote: I'm polling to see whether there are will and expertise to reboot graphics and GUIs work in Haskell. I miss working on functional graphics and GUIs in Haskell, as I've been blocked for several years (eight?) due to the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-09-28 Thread Ivan Perez
Hi Conal, hi café, I'm currently devoting most of my time to this and plan to continue doing so (in the form of a PhD and work via my company). I've been working on a thorough review of the current status and a comparative analysis (using a fairly demanding, well-known algorithm to compare

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-09-27 Thread John Lato
Hi Conal, If there is a system like you describe, I'm not aware of it. Part of the problem is the state of the underlying C libraries: gtk+ - possible, but suffers from the drawbacks you mention on OSX and is reportedly difficult to install on windows wx - somehow I've never been able to build

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-09-27 Thread Carter Schonwald
i know nothing on the gui tooling front, but i do know this: the ffi linking issues with GHCI *should* be fixed with ghc HEAD / 7.8. If you have linking problems with GHCi HEAD, please report it ASAP. All linking related issues that have historically plagued ghci should be resolved, at least on

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-09-27 Thread Keshav Kini
John Lato jwl...@gmail.com writes: QT - never tried this, but my impression is the Haskell-QT bindings are a bit stale Yes, QtHaskell [1] has been inactive for three years, as far as I can tell. However, there are newish bindings [2] for the Qt Quick declarative UI stuff that's appeared in

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-09-27 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Conal Elliott wrote: I'm polling to see whether there are will and expertise to reboot graphics and GUIs work in Haskell. I miss working on functional graphics and GUIs in Haskell, as I've been blocked for several years (eight?) due to the absence of low-level foundation libraries having the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-09-27 Thread Tikhon Jelvis
Could threepenny work with webGL, or is that too far out of the scope of the project? I guess the overhead of having a server--even locally--and using a web browser might just be too much for many use cases. On Sep 27, 2013 1:51 AM, Heinrich Apfelmus apfel...@quantentunnel.de wrote: Conal

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-09-27 Thread Luis Cabellos
However, I would prefer to have two different types of libraries in haskell: For graphics, something like SFML or SDL, no GUI implicit. but with good/modern OpenGL. Maybe we won't need a direct binding, but rethinking who should be done a SDL-like library in Haskell. Yep, FRP is cool, but need

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-09-27 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Tikhon Jelvis wrote: Could threepenny work with webGL, or is that too far out of the scope of the project? I guess the overhead of having a server--even locally--and using a web browser might just be too much for many use cases. Actually, I'm reading about WebGL right now, and it appears to me

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-09-27 Thread Oliver Charles
On 09/27/2013 04:32 AM, Conal Elliott wrote: I'm polling to see whether there are will and expertise to reboot graphics and GUIs work in Haskell. I miss working on functional graphics and GUIs in Haskell, as I've been blocked for several years (eight?) due to the absence of low-level

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-09-27 Thread Robin KAY
Hello, Keshav Kini wrote: [snip] However, there are newish bindings [2] for the Qt Quick declarative UI stuff that's appeared in recent Qt versions -- see the package hsqml on hackage [3]. It hasn't had any new uploads to hackage since last year, but there was activity on its repo as recently

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-09-27 Thread Keshav Kini
Robin KAY komad...@gekkou.co.uk writes: Yes, I'm afraid I've been failing to embrace the release early release often mantra with HsQML. I originally set myself some (fairly modest) goals for the next release. Unfortunately, I've had less time to spend on it than I'd like and it's delayed

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-09-27 Thread Jason Dagit
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 8:32 PM, Conal Elliott co...@conal.net wrote: I'm polling to see whether there are will and expertise to reboot graphics and GUIs work in Haskell. I miss working on functional graphics and GUIs in Haskell, as I've been blocked for several years (eight?) due to the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-09-27 Thread Henk-Jan van Tuyl
On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 05:32:18 +0200, Conal Elliott co...@conal.net wrote: I'm polling to see whether there are will and expertise to reboot graphics and GUIs work in Haskell. : * cross-platform, * easily buildable, * GHCi-friendly, and * OpenGL-compatible. : wxHaskell (whose API and visual

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-09-26 Thread aditya siram
Hi Conal, I'm glad you're bringing this up. I am currently working on FLTK bindings ( github.com/deech/fltkhs). It's main advantage of this toolkit is that it lets the user deploy apps as a self-contained binary on all platforms. Right now the work consists of the tedium of binding Haskell to the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-09-26 Thread KC
What does the following mean? About three years ago, I built a modern replacement of my old Pan and Vertigo systems (optimized high-level functional graphics in 2D and 3D), generating screamingly fast GPU rendering code. I'd love to share it with the community, but I'm unable to use it even

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Poll plea: State of GUI graphics libraries in Haskell

2013-09-26 Thread Conrad Parker
Hi Conal! Yes. I'd be very interested to help get Pan and Vertigo working. Do you have a repo somewhere? Conrad. On 27 September 2013 13:32, Conal Elliott co...@conal.net wrote: I'm polling to see whether there are will and expertise to reboot graphics and GUIs work in Haskell. I miss