[Haskell-cafe] GUI

[Miguel Mitrofanov]

I've seen an Objective C binding for Haskell; haven't used it yet.

13.12.2007, в 2:58, Marc A. Ziegert писал(а):

> Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2007 schrieb Miguel Mitrofanov:
>> Gtk2Hs is good (I suppose), but it requires X. OK, I have X, but it's
>> not "native" on my Mac; some Mac users don't install it and almost
>> all Mac users don't always run it.
>
> the problem is Apple. if you want to have a native gui on OSX then  
> you are either nearly stuck to Objective-C or to obsolete gui  
> libraries.
> i'm not a mac user, but i know one who is; he told me.
> on osx there are two main gui apis: carbon and cocoa.
>
> carbon is obsolete, but it partially runs on osx -- it is not 64bit  
> compatible.
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_%28API%29>
>
> cocoa is the newer one, which every mac user likes.
> AFAIK there is no C backend to that api, so you will have to  
> develop a C backend first and then the haskell (or gtk2) wrapper.
> there are some bindings for other languages, i.e. C#, but no C.
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_%28API%29>
>
> if you are able to code objective-c and know how to access cocoa  
> using c, please help those gtk developers to port gtk2 to native OSX.
> it will then automagically work with gtk2hs.
>
> - marc
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