Daniel Carrera
Felipe Lessa wrote:
Although I don't have access to a Mac, people usually don't like Gtk there. But there seems to be a native port somewhere that is going to be merged into Gtk+ someday :).
Now, good support today for Mac OS X would be my only reason to go through the wxWindows route. I use Gtk+ because back in the days that I tried wxWindows, it had a terrible appearence when using Gtk as a backend, but probably things improved since then.
Thanks. I guess one would have to try making a simple program with each and see. After all, one of the selling points of WX is that it's supposed to look right in all platforms. I have been sort of assuming that between WX and Gtk you might as well pick WX because WX uses Gtk in the platforms where Gtk looks right.
The choice would be simpler if Gtk ran natively on Mac. Right now it looks horrible and it is hard to setup if you are not a technical person or don't have the latest OS X. At a *minimum* you'll need to install fink or mac ports and run the program from the terminal.
Btw, I have read the first few chapters of the Gtk2Hs tutorial. The code looks extremely imperative. Even more than wxHaskell. I mean... initGUI, "widgetShowAll window", "mainGUI"... Yep, very imperative, but it works. At least gtk2hs is easiest way to build Haskell GUI program.
-- Andy