[Haskell-cafe] wxHaskell [was Tetris]

[Conal Elliott]

> Doesn't that go through Eiffel first or something strange?

Not at run-time.  I think Daan leveraged the Eiffel bindings in
automatically generating part of the Haskell bindings.

> I admit I haven't tried it personally, but I'm told getting wxHaskell to
> build is a tad tricky, and the code hasn't been maintained in a long
> time. (Isn't Fooey based on it?)

I think wxHaskell is somewhat maintained but could definitely use more
attention.  I was delighted to hear recently from Daan that he intends to
pick up maintenance again.  It really is tastefully designed, as imperative
interfaces go.

I also heard from Duncan that he intends to work on giving gtk2hs a more
elegant layering.

Phooey, GuiTV, and Eros are all built on wxHaskell.  (See Haskell wiki
pages.)  Sean Seefried's Pan implementation is also, and uses OpenGL.

Cheers,  - Conal

On Nov 21, 2007 11:40 AM, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Radosław Grzanka wrote:
> > 2007/11/21, Conal Elliott <conal at conal.net>:
> >
> >> I've just started using OpenGL with wxHaskell, which is my favorite of
> the
> >> Haskell GUI toolkits.  (I like elegant interfaces.)  So far, so good.
>  If
> >> anyone else is using that combination, I'd love to hear about it.
> >>
> >
> > There are bindings for wxWidgets for Haskell? Bring it on! Is there
> > any GUI building application like Glade for Gtk?
> >
>
> Doesn't that go through Eiffel first or something strange?
>
> I admit I haven't tried it personally, but I'm told getting wxHaskell to
> build is a tad tricky, and the code hasn't been maintained in a long
> time. (Isn't Fooey based on it?)
>
>
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