[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: FreeType 2 Bindings

[Jason Dagit]

I'm excited to announce the immediate availability of FreeType 2 bindings on
hackage.  These bindings are based off the 2.4.4 release of FreeType 2 and
use the BSD licensing option for FreeType 2.  This package should be of
interest to OpenGL users as it provides a way to get nice looking fonts into
your OpenGL programs.

This binding is still in its infancy, hence version 0.0.1, but enough of the
API is exposed that I was able to convert the example1.c program in the
FreeType tutorial to Haskell.  Here are a few relevant links:

  * What is FreeType: http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/index.html
  * Example program and tutorial:
    * http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/tutorial/step1.html
    * http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/tutorial/example1.c
  * Haskell version of tutorial:
    * https://github.com/dagit/freetype2/blob/cabalization/Main.hs
  * Example program output (yes, their tutorial example really does draw the
bitmap as a grid of text, scroll around to find the word "blah"), more
interesting examples to come later:
    * http://hpaste.org/45239/aoeu

The current API level is "raw" and makes no attempts to present a good
Haskell-like interface to the library.  My plan is to build a higher level
interface on top once a sufficient portion of the API is available to
Haskell.

You can find the source on github in the cabalization branch:
  * https://github.com/dagit/freetype2

Patches welcome!

Thanks,
Jason
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