[Haskell-cafe] adding state in GUIs (qtHaskell)

[Michael Mossey]

Dan Weston wrote:
> One simple solution is to leave the state in Qt.
> 
> As of Qt 4.2, in C++ you can use
> 
>   bool QObject::setProperty(const char * name, const QVariant & value)
>   QVariant QObject::property(const char * name) const
> 
> to set and get properties on any QObject (hence any QWidget).
> 
> Since I believe these are (not yet) wrapped in QtHaskell, you can 
> instead just create a widget that contains the state and just don't add 
> it to a layout. Parent it to a widget and it will quietly disappear when 
> its parent dies. If you want it to persist until you say so, don't 
> parent it to anything (but then you might as well use Haskell for your 
> state!)
> 
> Dan

Thanks for the reply, Dan. I don't quite follow---you mean create a widget 
in C++? I can't find setProperty/property in qtHaskell. I would like to 
keep everything in Haskell, though.