Re: [wxhaskell-users] wxhaskell vs. HToolkit

[David R. <dr...@jd...>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 08:40:33AM +0100, Gour wrote:
> Daan Leijen (daa...@xs...) wrote:
> > I know about darcs, but I wasn't aware that it uses wxHaskell.
> 
> Well, at the moment it is Haskell only, but wxhaskell was mentioned on
> darcs' mailing list when there was discussion about GUI, hence .. :-)

There is already optional GUI support in the latest darcs (using
wxhaskell).  It's not really useful yet (although it can be used), since I
haven't created a decent patch-viewing widget.  That's waiting on your
resizing fixes, so after wxhaskell 0.4 I'll take a look at it again and see
how far I get.

Darcs' gui interface is actually a bit unusual, in that it only exists for
certain commands, and so the command line is still required.  It's a
replacement for interactive prompting rather than a replacement for the
command line.  Which is pleasant to implement with wxhaskell's 'start'
function, which lets me start an interface whenever I want to (although
once I start it, it can't stop until I am willing to exit, which is
unfortunate--I'm going to have to figure out how to close a window without
exiting the program, since sometimes I have to prompt the user, and
afterwards run for a few minutes with no user interaction.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.abridgegame.org