[Haskell-cafe] more gtk help

[briand at aracnet.com]

after getting the entry widget events to work as i wanted, i started looking at some other things to do, and my first attempt failed with this :

    Couldn't match expected type `Gtk.Signal
                                    (Gtk.Signal self0 (Gtk.EventM Gtk.EExpose Bool)) (t0 -> IO ())'
                with actual type `GtkGL.GLDrawingArea'
    In the second argument of `Gtk.on', namely `glCanvas'
    In the expression: Gtk.on Gtk.exposeEvent glCanvas
    In a stmt of a 'do' block:
      Gtk.on Gtk.exposeEvent glCanvas $ \ _ -> putStrLn "foo"


  Gtk.on Gtk.exposeEvent glCanvas $ putStrLn "foo"

glCanvas is 

  glCanvas <- GtkGL.glDrawingAreaNew glconfig

I looked up the type of Gtk.on and exposeEvent :

exposeEvent
  :: WidgetClass self => Signal self (EventM EExpose Bool)

on
  :: object
     -> Signal object callback -> callback -> IO (ConnectId object)

There are numerous problems starting with the type of 'callback' that I can't seem to trace in the documentation.  And I can't figure out why callback is repeated...

unfortunately it's not obvious what's going on.  The type of the entry widget callback is much simpler, and quite a bit different, so I it's of little help.

I'm having a hard time finding appropriate examples because everything seems to use the deprecated convention of on{eventType}, e.g. onExposeEvent or onButtonPress.

I was hoping someone could teach me to fish and parse out the type for me and provide a simple example.
Just pointing me to up-to-date examples would almost certainly be good enough, but I really need to understand the convention here, since I suspect as I try to attach events to other widget types I will see these sorts of problems again.


Thanks,

Brian