Re: [Gtk2hs-users] gtk2hs & Anjuta

[Gour <go...@ma...>]

Duncan Coutts (dun...@wo...) wrote:

Hi Duncan!

> As soon as ghc supports foreign dynamic export on amd64.

Simon M. wrote me he is waiting for a amd54 hardware and then.. :-)


> It's probably better to ask in an Anjuta forum how to extend it to cope
> with a different language. I'd guess you'd need to start with extending
> the scintilla editor widget to do Haskell highlighting, then there's the
> various project management functions. 

Since I still have time before going into gui (with learning cli-haskell :-)
I'm just looking at different alternatives when it comes to gui development.

(I'm also taking a look on wxhaskell.)

> Anjuta already does glade stuff which would help with writing programs using
> gtk2hs.

That's why I asked about Anjuta 'cause gtk2hs bindings should provide support 
for Glade builder.

otoh, KDevelop already has some rudimentary support for Haskell, but it is 
really big :-)

> On the other hand if you're interested in these things there are a couple
> other projects to build Haskell IDEs. There's a new version of hIDE which I
> was working on (and which I intend to pick up again when gtk2hs is more
> mature). 

That's looks interesting 'cause probably Haskell gui development is not like
C++, i.e. one can be fine with lighter tools :-)

> There's also another one some people were starting but I can't now
> find the link. I think it might have been some of the Australian Haskell
> hackers.

Which toolkit it was written in?

> With hIDE, I was more or less up to the stage of having a multi-file editor
> with Haskell source code highlighting (via GtkSourceView). 

It sounds interesting. I'd also like to continue using (g)vim and there is nice
vim-clone on horizon - yzis (www.yzis.org) which provide kpart (e.g. nicely
fits into KDevelop).

So, it will be interesting to see hIDE with gtk2.

> if you want to help with that just say so.

At the moment I do not have enough time even to regularly learn haskell :-(
but I'll stay on the list and follow gtk2hs & hIDE development.

Sincerely,
Gour

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