[wxhaskell-users] announce: wxhaskell 0.3

[Daan L. <daa...@xs...>]

Announcement: wxHaskell version 0.3
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<http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net>

This basically a patch level release against the new wxWindows 2.4.2
library. The new library is especially improved for MacOS X, handling
redraw events correctly now. Furthermore, there is a new directory 
with "contributed" samples and there is support for direct image
manipulation for fast customized drawing.


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wxHaskell is a portable GUI library for Haskell. The goal of the 
project is to provide an industrial strength portable GUI library, but 
without the burden of developing (and maintaining) one ourselves. 

wxHaskell is therefore build on top of wxWindows -- a comprehensive 
C++ library that is portable across all major GUI platforms; including 
GTK, Windows, X11, and MacOS X. Furthermore, it is a mature library 
(in development since 1992) that supports a wide range of widgets with 
native look-and-feel, and it has a very active community (ranked among 
the top 25 most active projects on sourceforge).

Since most of the interface is automatically generated from the 
wxEiffel binding, the current release of wxHaskell already supports 
about 75% of the wxWindows functionality -- 2776 methods in 505
classes with 1279 constant definitions.

wxHaskell has been build with GHC 6.01 on Windows, MacOS X and Unix 
systems with GTK. A binary distribution is available for Windows 
and MacOS X. 

And even if you don't intend to write GUI's yourself, it will be fun 
to check out the screenshots at <http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net>.

All the best,
  Daan Leijen.