Re: [wxhaskell-users] wxhaskell vs. gtk2hs

[Conal E. <co...@co...>]

2010/1/22 Günther Schmidt <gue...@we...>

> Hi Conal,
>
> I recently switched my app from Haskell to Smalltalk because I was
> unable to code interdependent widgets with wxHaskell, ie. a bunch of
> dropdowns where changing the value of one needs to change the set of
> elements available in others.
>
> Well I was unable to code this in Haskell without using tons of either
> MVars or IORefs.
>
> If you know of a way or an example to do this in wxHaskell I'd certainly
> appreciate it if you'd share it with us.
>

I haven't delved far into what can be done with wxHaskell.  I've been more
interested in exploring functional/denotative GUI programming.


> The plain business logic of the app was so simple to code in haskell it
> was a pleasure. But I could not code the GUI part in wxHaskell, I just
> wouldn't know how and neither in gtk2hs for that matter.
>
> I also had the impression that the higher level projects in the GUI or
> FRP department are all started and then gotten stuck and abandoned, it
> seems to be an unsolved issue, please correct me if I'm wrong.
>

> Günther
>


Yes, I'd say unsolved as well.  Work continues.  I'm optimistic.

   - Conal


Am 23.01.10 02:15, schrieb Conal Elliott:
> > Hi Gour,
> >
> > I've worked with both wxhaskell and gtk2hs.  I prefer wxhaskell for
> > elegant design.  And I like that it gives me a native Mac OS X look.
> > There is a partially working native Gtk for Mac, but I don't think it
> > works with 3D, which was a requirement for me.  The X11 mode is painful
> > & ugly, and awfully disappointing considering how much more expensive a
> > Mac is than a Linux machine.
> >
> > In spite of these reasons, I'm using gtk2hs for the time being, because
> > wxhaskell has a problem that makes it very unfriendly to ghci.  The
> > second attempt to display a GUI kills its host process.  This behavior
> > is okay for many (but not all) compiled programs, but is a killer for
> > interactive/exploratory development.  As soon as I hear that this
> > problem is fixed, I'll very happily return to wxhaskell.
> >
> > Longer term, I want Haskell GUI programming to move away from these
> > massively complex OO imperative frameworks to something much more
> > elegant and harmonious with the spirit and benefits of pure
> > functional/denotative programming.
> >
> > Regards,  - Conal
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Gour
> > <go...@go...
> > <mailto:go...@go...>> wrote:
> >
>
>
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