[Haskell-cafe] Which windowing toolkit to use?
Hi all, I intend to start coding the UI of the heap profiling toolkit I'm working on [1] soon. I'd be happy to get some advice on choosing the right windowing toolkit for this task. The main requirements are: - portability and native look feel if possible - easy to distribute executables under Windows - relatively slow code rot - sane interface that doesn't need wild workarounds even if what I'm doing is not trivial or elementary - trouble-free source installation in case someone wants to contribute As I see, at the moment there's no serious alternative besides GTK and wx, so my question is which do you think is better suited to this task? I have absolutely no development experience with GTK, and while I used a bit of wx in the past (in C++), I'm not really familiar with it either, especially not the Haskell bindings. I noticed that installing the wx binding with user rights doesn't seem to work directly from hackage (doesn't pass --user to ghc-pkg?), but it looks like a problem that can be solved with some hand editing. I'm a bit more afraid of setting up a development environment under Windows; is there any major pain involved with either of these libraries if I use MinGW? And how about their interface? Is there any significant difference? I'd especially like to hear the opinion of someone who's reasonably familiar with both. Thanks, Gergely [1] http://code.google.com/p/hp2any/ -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Which windowing toolkit to use?
Web - HTML 2009/6/17 Patai Gergely patai_gerg...@fastmail.fm Hi all, I intend to start coding the UI of the heap profiling toolkit I'm working on [1] soon. I'd be happy to get some advice on choosing the right windowing toolkit for this task. The main requirements are: - portability and native look feel if possible - easy to distribute executables under Windows - relatively slow code rot - sane interface that doesn't need wild workarounds even if what I'm doing is not trivial or elementary - trouble-free source installation in case someone wants to contribute As I see, at the moment there's no serious alternative besides GTK and wx, so my question is which do you think is better suited to this task? I have absolutely no development experience with GTK, and while I used a bit of wx in the past (in C++), I'm not really familiar with it either, especially not the Haskell bindings. I noticed that installing the wx binding with user rights doesn't seem to work directly from hackage (doesn't pass --user to ghc-pkg?), but it looks like a problem that can be solved with some hand editing. I'm a bit more afraid of setting up a development environment under Windows; is there any major pain involved with either of these libraries if I use MinGW? And how about their interface? Is there any significant difference? I'd especially like to hear the opinion of someone who's reasonably familiar with both. Thanks, Gergely [1] http://code.google.com/p/hp2any/ -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Which windowing toolkit to use?
2009/6/17 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com: Web - HTML I'd agree with that. It would be really nice for X-platform. Maybe it's possible to use JQuery (or Flapjax) to get some nice dynamic/interacitivity? /M -- Magnus Therning(OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Which windowing toolkit to use?
2009/6/17 Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org: 2009/6/17 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com: Web - HTML I'd agree with that. It would be really nice for X-platform. Maybe it's possible to use JQuery (or Flapjax) to get some nice dynamic/interacitivity? Does someone know if it possible to make an application which embed webkit with: - webkit used for rendering and running javascript - javascript function calling haskell code ? Cheers, Thu ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Which windowing toolkit to use?
Web - HTML I'd agree with that. It would be really nice for X-platform. Maybe it's possible to use JQuery (or Flapjax) to get some nice dynamic/interacitivity? I'm not sure if a web interface is really a good fit here, but I'll think about it. Gergely -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Access all of your messages and folders wherever you are ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
Re: [Haskell-cafe] Which windowing toolkit to use?
I use Haskell server pages and HJScript. HJScript includes ajax capabilities. and embed haskell code in HTML much like ASP and JSP embed VB and Java. The client side haskell code is converted to javascript and with ajax you can call Haskell server code. 2009/6/17 minh thu not...@gmail.com 2009/6/17 Magnus Therning mag...@therning.org: 2009/6/17 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com: Web - HTML I'd agree with that. It would be really nice for X-platform. Maybe it's possible to use JQuery (or Flapjax) to get some nice dynamic/interacitivity? Does someone know if it possible to make an application which embed webkit with: - webkit used for rendering and running javascript - javascript function calling haskell code ? Cheers, Thu ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
