[wxhaskell-users] GUI builder (was Re: Problems compiling wxhaskell 0.6)

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

Gonzalo Tarantola (gon...@so...) wrote:

Hi!

> By the way, I plan to use wxHaskell in a project for university. Let me 
> tell you briefly what I want to do:
> The first goal is to write a GUI builder in Haskell. I want the 
> application to show that Haskell can be a powerfull language for 
> prototyping and rapid application development (or at leas to be a 
> practical tool for that "weird people that program in Haskell"[1]).

I'd also like to see Haskell getting more in the 'mainstream'.
Your project of writing GUI builder could be one nice step towards it.

> I would like to use wxHaskell to make the builder, and the builder 
> output will also use wxHaskell. If I manage to do that, I think it will 
> also help to show the strength of the wxHaskell library.

Although not having (at the moment) enough time (besides testing building of 
wxhaskell, ghc) to dive into Haskell & wxhaskell, I'm definitely interested
to use both of them in the future, I'm interested if the tool like wxglade
could be used with wxhaskell?

There is also DialogBlocks dialog editor which 'understands' XRC too, as well
as wxDesigner.

Maybe it will be worth to write Haskell application to parse XRC files and
generate appropriate wxhaskell code instead of writing GUI builder from a 
scratch?

In this way one can choose preferred GUI tool - free (wxglade) or commercial
(DialogBlocks & wxDesigner) and focusing on functional part of aplication in
Haskell.

> 
> Well, that's all. If anyone have any comments or useful information, 
> please let me know.


These are some thoughts, but pls. bear in mind they are coming from one not
very familiar with the wxhaskell & Haskell programming .

Sincerely,
Gour

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