On Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:11:19 +0100 >>>>>> "Mads" == Mads Lindstrøm wrote:
Hi Mads, Mads> It was great to see XRC being added to wxHaskell. Nonetheless, it Mads> seems to have less type safety than the "traditional" way of Mads> creating widgets. XRC seems to becoming topic in wxhaskell again... Mads> There seems to be two static guaranties we are Mads> now missing: Mads> Mads> 1) The naming of widgets is by strings which can be misspelled. Mads> Mads> 2) One can accidentally use a wrong *res function for accessing Mads> the widget. E.g. using radioBoxRes for a button. Does gtk2hs using Glade suffer from the same problem? Mads> Fortunately, it could easily be remedied by parsing the xrc.xml Mads> file and generating the necessary functions. That would be great, even more to get haskell code generation from XRC support in some GUI builder. Mads> Would people think this is a good idea? Would you use it? I'd definitely using it considering it's advantage to use GUI builder to generate XRC. Mads> If people are interested, I would gladly volunteer to turn the Mads> proof of concept into "real" code. Has anything happened in regard so far (I excuse myself for questioning being quite new with wxhaskell.)? Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Hlapicina, Croatia | GPG key: F96FF5F6 ----------------------------------------------------------------
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