[Haskell-beginners] GUI library for beginners?

Brent Yorgey byorgey at seas.upenn.edu
Tue Dec 14 15:38:18 CET 2010


But OpenGL is not really a GUI library, is it?  I think gtk2hs is
usually recommended. I've never used it personally but have heard good
things from those who have.  Hopefully the web page will be back up
soon.

-Brent

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:55:45AM +0000, Tom Hobbs wrote:
> Hi Venanzio,
> 
> I found the following sites very helpful when trying to understand
> OpenGL + Haskell.
> 
> - http://blog.mikael.johanssons.org/archive/2006/09/opengl-programming-in-haskell-a-tutorial-part-1/
> - http://myawesomeblag.blogspot.com/2007/03/opengl-tetris-in-haskell.html
> 
> My site contains the commands I used to get everything install on
> Ubuntu, it also has a link to my code on it, but you'll find that the
> code is very similar to Mikael's above.
> 
> http://whatimean.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/simple-cell-automata-in-haskell/
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Venanzio Capretta <vxc at cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  I've been trying to find out what is the best GUI library to use for a
> > Haskell beginner.
> > At first I adopted gtk2hs and it was going well. But the web page for it has
> > disappeared during the Haskell site migration. So now I don't have access to
> > the documentation and the examples any more.
> > Next I tried with wxHaskell, but unfortunately it doesn't install on Ubuntu
> > (I checked on the mailing list: other people had the same problem and I
> > don't understand the solution).
> > Is there a library for GUI in Haskell that is simple to use and well
> > supported, something that is user friendly for a beginner Haskell
> > programmer?
> > Best wishes,
> >  Venanzio
> >
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