On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:15:00 -0800 >>>>>> "Conal" == "Conal Elliott" wrote:
Hello Conal, Conal> I've worked with both wxhaskell and gtk2hs. I prefer wxhaskell Conal> for elegant design. And I like that it gives me a native Mac OS Conal> X look. There is a partially working native Gtk for Mac, but I Conal> don't think it works with 3D, which was a requirement for me. This is nice to hear about wxhaskell. Conal> In spite of these reasons, I'm using gtk2hs for the time being, Conal> because wxhaskell has a problem that makes it very unfriendly to Conal> ghci. The second attempt to display a GUI kills its host Conal> process. This behavior is okay for many (but not all) compiled Conal> programs, but is a killer for interactive/exploratory Conal> development. As soon as I hear that this problem is fixed, I'll Conal> very happily return to wxhaskell. Isn't it that, at one point of time, gtk2hs has similar problem when working within ghci? Conal> Longer term, I want Haskell GUI programming to move away from Conal> these massively complex OO imperative frameworks to something Conal> much more elegant and harmonious with the spirit and benefits of Conal> pure functional/denotative programming. I must say that I'm looking/reading your FRP stuff from the distance thinking it's way above the head of this Haskell noob, but I tend to agree that it should be possible to do GUI in Haskell in a different way. Do you consider it can be achieved on the top of present libs like wx/gtk+ or it would require writing new stuff? Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Hlapicina, Croatia | GPG key: F96FF5F6 ----------------------------------------------------------------
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