Haskell Xlib bindings

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

hoelz:
> Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Rob Hoelz <hoelz at wisc.edu> wrote:
> > > My question is this:  Why do the Haskell Xlib bindings have no way
> > > to extract the property event from an event pointer?
> > > 
> > > For example, the following functions are available:
> > > 
> > > get_KeyEvent, get_ButtonEvent, get_MotionEvent, etc.
> > > 
> > > but there's no get_PropertyEvent.
> > > 
> > > Why was this left out?  It seems pretty critical to the
> > > functionality of an Xlib program to someone who's been programming
> > > in C with Xlib for quite some time.
> > 
> > It wasn't left out, it just wasn't put in, like a lot of other things.
> > If you have a list of stuff you need, it can be added.
> > 
> 
> Actually, I wouldn't mind doing it myself.  Are the Haskell libs
> compiler-specific, or central?  Either way, is there a
> CVS/subversion/git repository I can check out from?

Great!

You can get most Haskell software via darcs repositories,
(http://darcs.net)   , and X11 is no exception:

    $ darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/X11
    Copying patch 17 of 99...

General information for developing Haskell libraries is available here:

    http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/How_to_write_a_Haskell_program

and covers the toolchain and best practices.    

Cheers,
    Don