Hi Jean-Denis,
Thanks for the information. Do you know how WxHaskell fits my needs? For
example, does it have good docs and examples for a beginner? Does it have
the ability to draw lines and characters on a surface? Does it have a type
of "canvas" which usually refers to an optimized drawing surface?
Thanks,
Mike
Jean-Denis Koeck wrote:
I began writing a commercial app with a GUI using Gtk2hs,
but it looked ugly on Windows. I'm switching to WxHaskell.
2009/8/29 Michael Mossey <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
I want to choose a GUI library for my project. Some background: I'm
a beginner to functional programming and have been working through
Haskell books for a few months now. I'm not just learning Haskell
for s**ts and giggles; my purpose is to write
music-composition-related code; in particular, I want to write a
graphical musical score editor. (Why write my own editor, you may
ask? Because I want to fully integrate it with
computer-assisted-composition algorithms that I plan to write, also
in Haskell.) I decided to use Haskell for its great features as a
functional programming language.
Regarding a choice of GUI library, I want these factors:
- it needs to provide at a minimum a drawing surface, a place I can
draw lines and insert characters, in addition to all the standard
widgets and layout capabilities we have to come to expect from a GUI
library.
- This is a Windows application.
- it needs to be non-confusing for an intermediate-beginner
Haskeller. Hopefully good documentation and examples will exist on
the web.
- It might be nice to have advanced graphics capability such as Qt
provides, things like antialiasied shapes, and a canvas with
efficient refresh (refereshes only the area that was exposed, and if
your canvas items are only primitives, it can do refreshes from
within C++ (no need to touch your Haskell code at all). However I'm
wondering if qtHaskell fits my criteria "well-documented" and "lots
of examples aimed at beginners".
Thanks,
Mike
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