[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: first Grapefruit release

[Jamie]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:

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> Am Sonntag, 15. Februar 2009 00:25 schrieben Sie:
>> Hi Wolfgang,
>>
>> I was wondering if I can use FLTK as GUI backend for Grapefruit?
>
> This should be possible in principal. It just could be that my assumptions
> about how widgets are created and composed were too tight so that
> Grapefruit’s general interface doesn’t fit FLTK. In this case, please just
> tell me and I will try to make the interface more general.

Ok, great I ll have to use them then I will see and know what improvement 
is needed.

>> I believe for this to make it happen, I would have to output FLTK's C++
>> into C then create bindings for Haskell (via FFI).  Is that doable or an
>> quite tall order?
>
> Recently, a student of mine has written a program which generates a Haskell Qt
> binding fully automatically from Qt header files. The generated binding
> consists of three layers. The first layer is C++ code which reexports Qt’s
> functionality as a pure C interface. The C interface is ugly for humans and
> not type safe (because C doesn’t know classes). The second layer consists of
> a couple of FFI declarations. The third layer is Haskell code which provides
> a nice interface similar to the original C++ interface.
>
> I still have to get the source code of the binding generator from that student
> but I hope this will happen soon. I want to publish it then on the web. It
> hope that it is possible to reuse this binding generator for other C++
> libraries.

That would be very helpful, I ll be looking forward.

> Best wishes,
> Wolfgang

 	Jamie