[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: colour 0.0.0

Henk-Jan van Tuyl hjgtuyl at chello.nl
Thu Oct 23 19:13:00 EDT 2008


On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:12:05 +0200, <roconnor at theorem.ca> wrote:

> http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/colour-0.0.0
>
> I hope for this library to become the standard colour library for  
> Haskell. Most software does not properly blend colours because they fail  
> to gamma-correct the colours before blending.  Hopefully by using this  
> library, Haskell programs dealing with colour blending will avoid this  
> problem.
>
> I am making an early release of my colour library to get some feedback.  
> I am especially interested in getting feedback on the interfaces: should  
> functions be renamed, should functions be moved, etc. Should I put black  
> and white colours into Data.Colour?  Which is better form making a  
> colour: (sRGB r g b) or (sRGB (r,g,b))?
>
> Bug reports and any patches are also welcome.  Be warned, I haven't  
> extensively tested this library yet.
>

I think it would be nice to have conversion functions for wxHaskell and  
the like, to convert between the different color representations.

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Henk-Jan van Tuyl


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