[Haskell-cafe] Re: Projects that depend on the vty package?
Simon Michael
simon at joyful.com
Sat Dec 6 17:21:23 EST 2008
Hi Corey.. I noticed this thread via Haskell Weekly News.
Corey O'Connor wrote:
> For further development of the vty package I'm really only paying
> attention to the requirements that fall out of the Yi project. Are
> there any other projects that depend on the vty package?
Why yes! I just used it within the hledger project.
I found it easier to get started with the (h/nano)curses libs. From your
cursor-moving example I started tweaking and soon had a working ui. It
works well here and I'm hoping it will be pretty robust across platforms.
More top of the head feedback:
I liked the level of abstraction, it seems to handle a lot of routine
stuff for me. I liked to hear that it avoids flicker that (apparently)
curses suffers from.
I expected renderBS to convert a multiline string into an Image of
height > 1.
It might be nice if the <-> and <|> combinators were more forgiving
about mismatching dimensions, I get unexpected failures from them. After
a failure like this my program quits but the terminal is not properly
reset until I run "reset" manually.
I believe vty supports only whole-screen updates, and you could write
more performant uis by careful use of *curses ? My experiment is quick
enough for regular use on my macbook, but I can only move the cursor so
fast and when I highlight the whole line that it's on there is
noticeable double-display while I move. I haven't tried profiling yet.
I'd welcome any tips on how to write a cross-platform TUI that updates
instantly!
So thank you and Stefan O'Rear very much indeed!
-Simon
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