[GUI] Some random thought of my own

Axel Simon A.Simon@ukc.ac.uk
Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:50 +0000


On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:34:54PM -0800, David Sankel wrote:
> >        runGUI (window (vBox [label "Hello
> > World!",w])
> >
> 
> This is a very cool idea.  I do think it is a bit on
> the Fudgets (experimental) side of things though.  For
> CGA I would probably lean against such an idea since
> it hasn't be practically proven.  I'm not sure how
> often I would use this in my day-to-day gui coding.  I
 I would say not quite. Fudgets use combinators to but widgets together. 
Beyond that these combinators connect channels between widgets which 
specifiy information flow (which sometimes becomes a real pain if the 
widget tree does not reflect the way information flows).

Actually the "build a description of an algebraic data type and then push 
the button to create the corresponding GUI is the Object I/O approach.

Axel.