[Haskell] New Version of my Arrows GUI Library Based on GTK+

[Kevin Atkinson]

I just posted a new version of FG, my Arrows GUI Library Based on GTK+.  
You can find it at http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org/fg/.  I reworked how 
Events are handled which decreases the number of times a loop is 
traversed form "2^d" to "d + 1" where d is the depth of the inner most 
loop.  Furthermore only the loop which the event was fired in will need to 
be traversed multiple times.

You can find it at http://kevin.atkinson.dhs.org/fg/.

Feedback appreciated.

Here are some interesting parts from the documentation:

Description:

This module is a first attempt of using Arrows to create a GUI Library 
based on GTK+. A good understanding of how Arrows work is required in 
order to understand the interface. For more information on Arrows see 
http://www.haskell.org/arrows/.

It uses many ideas from Fruit (http://haskell.org/fruit/). However it is 
based on discrete events rather than a continuous signal. The interface is 
only updated during an Event. It also ideas from Fudgets 
(http://www.md.chalmers.se/Cs/Research/Functional/Fudgets/), some of which 
were also used by Fruit. 

...

Implementation Notes:

Arrows essentially build up a huge tree like data structure representing 
the control flow between arrows. In the current implementation most of 
top-level structure has to be traversed when ever an event is fired -- 
even if absolutely no actions need to be taken. When a loop is used parts 
of this structure may be traversed multiple times. In particular the inner 
most loop where an event was fired from will be traversed "d + 1" times 
where d is the depth of the loop. If an event was not fired inside a loop 
(or any of the sub loops) than the loop will only be traversed once.

Avoiding this problem of having to traverse most of tree for every event 
requires information that I'm not sure the compiler can give me. For 
example I need to know the difference between arr (x -> x) and arr (_ -> 
10). The first passes the input to the output the second throws the value 
away. All I am able to know is that arr was used. What exactly the 
function does is a black box. 

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