Re: [Haskell-beginners] Haskell GUI library

Hey, Thanks for your insides. I will look into Gtk2Hs. Has anyone experience with a gui toolkit based on "Functional Reactive Programming" that he/she would describe as mature and up to date? Thanks! Nathan On 05/04/2011 05:12 PM, aditya siram wrote:

I recently did a project with Gtk2Hs and it was fine. The binding is pretty complete, mature and closely emulates the imperative OO style of the GTK itself so you spend most of your time in the IO monad.

While it isn't very Haskelly, it made it very easy for me to use documentation from other GTK bindings. For example, PyGTK docs answered many questions that I couldn't find in the Haddocks.

Other upsides using GTK were that 1) Haskell has a nice Glade library which made it really easy to design the GUI itself 2) Haskell's type system even though you are mostly in the IO monad was incredibly valuable for development.

One downside was that installing Gtk2Hs and the Glade library on Windows was not easy. It took a little messing around and I documented my experiences in the wiki, but it appears that those instructions haven't worked for everybody. Once I did get it installed I did all of my development on Linux and the code worked fine without any tweaking on Windows.

Hope this helps! -deech

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Nathan Hüsken wrote:

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Hey,

looking on the haskell homepage, there are a lot of gui libraries (or at least bindings) available. One big difference seems to be that some are based on "Functional Reactive Programming" (I do not know what that is, just read it).

So if I want to write a gui in haskell, which library should I use? Which is stable enough? Has anyone experience with some of these gui libraries?

Thanks! Nathan

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