[GUI] Re: Future of Haskell: GUI development

[Wolfgang Thaller]

Nick Name wrote:

> Am I unsubscribed to this list, or people do not want to comment on
> anymore? The main problem of wxwin was, according to (if I remember
> well) Wolfgang Thaller, that it does not feel native on OSX; so I guess
> the opinion of some OSX user or developer would be interesting now.

It actually looks and feels better than I expected. While it is not 
perfect, it appears to be moving in the right direction. The biggest 
problems with the current Mac OS X version of wxWindows seem to stem 
from it's backward compatibility with Mac OS 8 and 9, rather than it's 
cross-platform nature.

Specifying and implementing a CGA that works better (for basic tasks) 
than wxWindows will take some time, and I have been convinced that it 
is not certain that we would succeed. I'm therefore stepping aside and 
giving wxWindows & wxHaskell a chance.

However, if you or someone else on the list would like to continue 
discussing the subject of a Common GUI API, feel free to do so. While 
im not interested in spending large amounts of time on this at this 
point in time, I'll still watch the list in case anybody has questions 
that fall in my area of expertise (i.e. Mac OS).
If there is progress on this CGA (like, for example, a specification 
that looks like it can be implemented _well_ on all platforms), or if 
wxWindows fails to meet my expectations in the future, I might also 
become more interested in this approach again.

Cheers,

Wolfgang