On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 20:39, Gregory Crosswhite <gcr...@phys.washington.edu> wrote: > On 5/20/11 8:35 AM, Jeremy O'Donoghue wrote: >> >> I would like to suggest, quite seriously, that the Haskell community try >> to come to a consensus about supporting a single Haskell GUI, with a view to >> distribution in the HP. Obviously my vote is for wxHaskell, but I'm quite >> prepared to loose the vote. Reason is that I think we need to concentrate >> some effort on getting one GUI binding to 'production' status, and I don't >> believe that on the current basis we will ever do this. From my perspective, >> only GtkHS and wxHaskell look like serious candidates with at least some >> history and maturity behind them. > > If you are going to rule out Qt, then the only good cross-platform option > remaining is wx since Gtk is not fully native on OSX but instead uses X11 > which results in an inferior user experience, and it would be a bad idea to > have that be the standard that everyone associates with applications written > in Haskell.
Note that it is supposed to be possible to build gtk2hs with gtk+osx, which will not use X11 but use the native OS X GUI. I've not been able to get this to work, but it's been a while since I tried. The Haskell wiki mentions it doesn't support Glade, but does support Cairo. If this were to work, gtk2hs would be a serious option as well. Erik _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
