Hi Gour On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 19:42 +0100, Gour wrote: > 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?
I do not know much about gtk2hs, but from this http://www.haskell.org/gtk2hs/docs/tutorial/glade/ it seems like the surfer from the same two problems. > > 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.)? Nothing has happened so far, but I will take the prototype further. I do not expect it to be much work, so hopefully something will be ready soon. I have no plans to build a non-toy XRC based GUI myself, so an early early adapter, could be very helpful in keeping this little project focused. You might be interested in being an early adapter? > > > Sincerely, > Gour /Mads
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