[Haskell-beginners] Re: Selecting a GUI toolkit

[Andy Stewart]

Hi Daniel,
Daniel Carrera <daniel.carrera at theingots.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> This question is just idle curiosity. I don't actually plan to write a desktop GUI program. With
> that said, what library would you recommend to someone who wants to write a cross-platform desktop
> app with Haskell?
>
> Consider the following requirements:
>
> 1) Cross-platform. Windows, Linux and preferably OS X too.
> 2) Maintained, stable, mature, documented, etc.
> 3) Easy to use.
I use gtk2hs, it yes to all your need above.

I use gtk2hs-0.10.0 with GHC 6.10 (6.10.1 or 6.10.2) in Ubuntu (or Debian).

Below is detail install method:
1) Install GHC 6.10, :)
2) Install depend libraries:
sudo aptitude install automake libglade2-dev libgtksourceview-dev libgtksourceview2.0-dev libgconf2-dev librsvg2-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgtkglext1-dev libgnomevfs2-dev xulrunner-dev -y
3) Download gtk2hs-0.10.0:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gtk2hs/gtk2hs-0.10.0.tar.gz
4) Compile gtk2hs-0.10.0:
autoconf && ./configure --enable-docs && make && sudo make install

And this have tutorial that introduce how to use gtk2hs:
http://darcs.haskell.org/gtk2hs/docs/tutorial/Tutorial_Port/

  -- Andy

>
> Notice that this has much to do with the Haskell bindings. For example, Qt might be a fabulous
> toolkit, but qtHaskell might be immature (it looks like it started in Dec 2007).
>
> wxHaskell looks good. I like the idea behind wxWidgets, but I have never used it (or any GUI toolkit
> for that matter).
>
> Thank you for your input.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.