[Haskell-cafe] Problem with Gtk2hs

[Duncan Coutts]

On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 13:08 -0800, Stefan O'Rear wrote: 
> On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 08:33:36PM +0000, Andrew Coppin wrote:
> > I just spent the evening writing a library that's a thin layer over Gtk2hs. 
> > It took an age to get it to compile, but eventually it worked. Yay!
> >
> > When I ran it, I got this:
> >
> > Test2: gtk/Graphics/UI/Gtk/Gdk/PixbufData.hs.pp:58:0: No instance nor 
> > default method for class operation Data.Array.Base.getNumElements
> >
> > Er... wow.
> >
> > OK, at this point, I am completely stumped. Any hints?
> 
> That's pretty obviously a bug - Graphics.UI.Gtk.Gdk.PixbufData doesn't
> fully implement the (M)Array class.

The MArray class changed in ghc-6.8 and we didn't notice until the
gtk2hs release was already out.

So there are a couple workarounds, either grab the darcs version of the
0.9.12 branch which contains the fix:
http://darcs.haskell.org/gtk2hs-branches/gtk2hs-0.9.12/

Or use the released version with ghc-6.6.x rather than 6.8.x, since 6.6
has the previous different MArray interface.

Or use the unsafe indexing operators which bypass the bounds check which
calls getNumElements.


Duncan