wxHaskell, a portable and native GUI library for Haskell

Mads Lindstrøm | 1 May 2009 15:01

Re: General questions

Hi

Jeremy O'Donoghue wrote:

> Someone (Mads, I think) showed a proof of concept for type safety on
> XRC, but I haven't had the time to implement it fully so far.

Yes, that was me. See
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.wxhaskell.devel/364/match=xrc

I do not think it would take a long time, to make this usable for 90-95%
of the widgets in a XRC file.

However, personally I have no desire to use Glade or XRC files. But I
know others do - to each his own.

I do not want to develop this any further, for an imaginary user who may
or may not exists. However, if somebody wants to this further developed
and is willing to be ginnypig I could do so. But it is only second best.
The best would be for somebody with a GUI app using XRC file, to
implement type-safe XRC accessors themselves.

Greetings,

Mads

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Daniel Carrera | 1 May 2009 15:17

Re: General questions

Mads Lindstrøm wrote:
> However, personally I have no desire to use Glade or XRC files. But I
> know others do - to each his own.

Personally I have no opinion on Glade as I've never used it. When I say 
I like the idea of specifying a GUI with XML, the picture in my mind is 
something like XUL or HTML (hey, I'm a web developer). But these are 
much simpler than Glade XML. AFAIK you are not supposed to write Glade 
XML by hand.

Daniel.

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