Announce: wxHaskell 0.4

[Daan Leijen]

Announcement: wxHaskell version 0.4 
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<http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net>

The main addition of this new release is extensive support for ODBC 
database access. This is currently only tested on windows and not yet 
supported on MacOS X. Further additions: many GUI improvements for 
MacOS X, resize issues have been fixed, new functionality to 
manipulate pixel buffers, and support for OpenGL windows (untested yet 
with HOpenGL... we are looking for volunteers :-).

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wxHaskell is a portable GUI library for Haskell. The goal of the 
project is to provide an industrial strength portable GUI library, but 
without the burden of developing (and maintaining) one ourselves. 

wxHaskell is therefore build on top of wxWindows -- a comprehensive 
C++ library that is portable across all major GUI platforms; including 
GTK, Windows, X11, and MacOS X. Furthermore, it is a mature library 
(in development since 1992) that supports a wide range of widgets with 
native look-and-feel, and it has a very active community (ranked among 
the top 25 most active projects on sourceforge).

Since most of the interface is automatically generated from the 
wxEiffel binding, the current release of wxHaskell supports 
about 85% of the wxWindows functionality -- 2878 methods in 513
classes with 1347 constant definitions.

wxHaskell has been build with GHC 6.01 on Windows, MacOS X and 
Unix systems with GTK. A binary distribution is available for Windows 
and MacOS X. 

And even if you don't intend to write GUI's yourself, it will be fun 
to check out the screenshots at <http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net>.

All the best,
  dr. :-)  Daan Leijen.