Re: [Gtk2hs-users] ramblings on learning gtk, gtk vs wx and porting to windows

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

Axel Simon (A....@ke...) wrote:

> On Mac OS X, Gtk+ applications will always look wrong because the menu
> bar is attached to the main window. There's no way around that, unless
> somebody changes Gtk+ to enforce that each application has only one main
> window and one, fixed, menu. This is unlikely to happen.

This one does not bother me so much at the moment :-)

> For wxHaskell and Gtk+, there are two more technical aspects:
> 	* wxHaskell has no automatic memory management. If you destroy 	  (i.e.
> close) a window and want to access some attribute 	  afterwards, you'll
> segfault. I don't think the wxHaskell 	  people can ever fix that since
> the underlying C++ memory 	  model doesn't fit Haskell at all.

This is an important issue and clear advantage, especially when suing type-safe
language as Haskell :-)

> That was both very biased :-).

Thank you. It looks I'm going to be sole soon :-)

Sincerely,
Gour

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