[email protected] wrote:
Is it possible to "easily" connect Haskell to JavaScript/JavaFX in
the browser and use a browser as a Windows GUI? :)
...
I meant call Haskell functions from a browser; so the browser handles
the GUI widgets and Haskell handles the processing. :)
It's pretty easy to get the basics going. There are a bunch of options.
Start here:
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Web
For what you're asking about, I'd suggest looking at the following
options from that page. All of these options involve linking a web
server library into your Haskell app, so it's self-contained and all you
need is a browser to talk to it:
#6: Snap + custom code: Snap is simple to get started with, and is good
if you know exactly what HTML/Javascript you need to generate and don't
mind doing it more or less manually. If you're looking for richer
library support for developing HTML UIs, consider the next option.
#2: Snap + Yesod: Yesod will give you many of the framework features you
might want for developing web UIs. (Not sure about JavaFX though.)
#1: Happstack: an ambitious web server / framework with some fancy
features like its own data persistence system.
One other tool worth considering if you're doing a lot of Javascript
with Haskell is JMacro: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Jmacro
It lets you embed Javascript code directly in Haskell, and easily embed
Haskell data into that code.
Anton
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