[Haskell-cafe] Windows Haskell GUI

[Duncan Coutts]

On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 16:06 -0700, Jason Dagit wrote:
> I can't help with gtk2hs as I haven't tried it yet, but I hear the dev
> community is much more alive and very helpful.  My main concerns with
> gtk2hs were 1) I need a native look 'n feel

This is a common misconception. Gtk+ uses the windows native theming
dlls so look pretty good. See some of our screen shots:
http://www.haskell.org/gtk2hs/gallery/HRay

If you do find any places where it doesn't match the native theme then
please report them in the Gtk+ bugzilla.

> 2) ease of distribution with my application.

Is there something specific we could improve here?

Note that if you're building a standalone app then you can just bundle
all the Gtk+ .dll files in your apps install directory and it'll work
fine. So there's no need to have users install Gtk+ separately, you can
include all the stuff into one installer.

Duncan