"Eray Ozkural (exa)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > I've just realized that a feature of QT 3.0[!] library, which is a well > versed GUI library used in KDE, can make writing a GUI library quite easy. > > There is a class called QWidgetFactory[*] in QT 3.0 that enables application > programmers to dynamically generate a GUI from a .ui file which is an XML > file that describes it. > > If a functional combinator library would be able to generate the XML file in > question then a GUI could be created quite easily. > > You also need to access objects in the created widget and implement slots for > it, which I think should be possible using the C bindings. There are new C > bindings for KDE and there ought to be some for QT as well.
The time consuming part in creating such a system are the C bindings, not the XML stuff. In fact, similar functionality is available for GTK+ already for a long while. The cool point about it is that the graphical interface builder Glade http://glade.gnome.org/ can generate these XML files, which you just load into your application using a library called libglade (that corresponds to the QWidgetFactory that you mention above). I guess, KDE's interface builder can do the same. There is a binding to libglade for Haskell available, although it is not part of the main Gtk+HS distribution yet, but I am happy to email it on request. Cheers, Manuel _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
