> Can GUI programming be liberated from the IO monad? >From a layman's point of view, aren't structures like enumerators/iteratees more suited to deal with IO? Or maybe they just wouldn't apply in the case of GUI...
2011/7/8 Heinrich Apfelmus <apfel...@quantentunnel.de> > Dear Haskellers, > > Can GUI programming be liberated from the IO monad? Functional Reactive > Programming (FRP) promises as much, and I'm trying to make this dream a > reality with my [reactive-banana][] library. Having released version > 0.4.0.0, I am now looking for example programs to direct the future > evolution of the library. > > Do you know any *small GUI programs* that you would *like* to see > *implemented with Functional Reactive Programming?* > > I'm sure that some of you > > * are interested in FRP and would like to learn from a few simple but > beautiful examples > * or have written small GUI programs that they are unhappy with because > they were not purely functional > * or have thought about FRP before and concocted a few examples that are > very tricky to implement with FRP > * or have written a nice little GUI application that simply makes a great > example. > > I would love to hear your examples, so that I can try to convert them to > FRP style and test my library against them! > > Strictly speaking, it doesn't have to be an example with a graphical > interface, I'm also interested in audio and animation examples, though I'm > currently focusing on GUIs. > > Here a few examples of what I am looking for: > > * I think that Tim Docker's minimal step sequencer [hbeat][] simply makes a > great example. I hope that wxHaskell offers a platform-independent way to > play sound. > > * While editing the [Haskell Weekly News][hwn], Brent Yorgey wrote a little > command-line [program to gather newsworthy items][zipedit]. But wouldn't a > GUI be great? Since I'm only interested in the GUI, someone would have to > supply the feed parser for this example to be viable. Maybe the current > editor, Daniel Santa Cruz, might be interested? > > * Notes of a musical performance can be modeled as event streams (MIDI), as > Henning Thielemann has [done with great effect][midi streams]. Surely, > reactive-banana should be up to the task, but writing an arpeggiator seems > impossible at the moment. > > > [reactive-banana]: > http://hackage.haskell.org/**package/reactive-banana<http://hackage.haskell.org/package/reactive-banana> > [zipedit]: > http://byorgey.wordpress.com/**2008/06/21/zipedit/<http://byorgey.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/zipedit/> > [hbeat]: http://dockerz.net/twd/hBeat > [midi streams]: > http://hackage.haskell.org/**package/streamed<http://hackage.haskell.org/package/streamed> > [hwn]: > http://www.haskell.org/**haskellwiki/Haskell_Weekly_**News<http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_Weekly_News> > > > > Best regards, > Heinrich Apfelmus > > -- > http://apfelmus.nfshost.com > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/**mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe<http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe> >
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