GUI library for beginners?

Venanzio Capretta

14 Dec 2010 14 Dec '10

4:16 a.m.

Hi, I've been trying to find out what is the best GUI library to use for a Haskell beginner. At first I adopted gtk2hs and it was going well. But the web page for it has disappeared during the Haskell site migration. So now I don't have access to the documentation and the examples any more. Next I tried with wxHaskell, but unfortunately it doesn't install on Ubuntu (I checked on the mailing list: other people had the same problem and I don't understand the solution). Is there a library for GUI in Haskell that is simple to use and well supported, something that is user friendly for a beginner Haskell programmer? Best wishes, Venanzio

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Tom Hobbs

14 Dec 14 Dec

4:55 a.m.

Hi Venanzio, I found the following sites very helpful when trying to understand OpenGL + Haskell. - http://blog.mikael.johanssons.org/archive/2006/09/opengl-programming-in-hask... - http://myawesomeblag.blogspot.com/2007/03/opengl-tetris-in-haskell.html My site contains the commands I used to get everything install on Ubuntu, it also has a link to my code on it, but you'll find that the code is very similar to Mikael's above. http://whatimean.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/simple-cell-automata-in-haskell/ Good luck. Tom On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Venanzio Capretta wrote:

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Hi, I've been trying to find out what is the best GUI library to use for a Haskell beginner. At first I adopted gtk2hs and it was going well. But the web page for it has disappeared during the Haskell site migration. So now I don't have access to the documentation and the examples any more. Next I tried with wxHaskell, but unfortunately it doesn't install on Ubuntu (I checked on the mailing list: other people had the same problem and I don't understand the solution). Is there a library for GUI in Haskell that is simple to use and well supported, something that is user friendly for a beginner Haskell programmer? Best wishes, Venanzio

_______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

Brent Yorgey

9:38 a.m.

But OpenGL is not really a GUI library, is it? I think gtk2hs is usually recommended. I've never used it personally but have heard good things from those who have. Hopefully the web page will be back up soon. -Brent On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:55:45AM +0000, Tom Hobbs wrote:

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Hi Venanzio,

I found the following sites very helpful when trying to understand OpenGL + Haskell.

- http://blog.mikael.johanssons.org/archive/2006/09/opengl-programming-in-hask... - http://myawesomeblag.blogspot.com/2007/03/opengl-tetris-in-haskell.html

My site contains the commands I used to get everything install on Ubuntu, it also has a link to my code on it, but you'll find that the code is very similar to Mikael's above.

http://whatimean.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/simple-cell-automata-in-haskell/

Good luck.

Tom

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Venanzio Capretta wrote:

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Hi, I've been trying to find out what is the best GUI library to use for a Haskell beginner. At first I adopted gtk2hs and it was going well. But the web page for it has disappeared during the Haskell site migration. So now I don't have access to the documentation and the examples any more. Next I tried with wxHaskell, but unfortunately it doesn't install on Ubuntu (I checked on the mailing list: other people had the same problem and I don't understand the solution). Is there a library for GUI in Haskell that is simple to use and well supported, something that is user friendly for a beginner Haskell programmer? Best wishes, Venanzio

_______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

_______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

Tom Hobbs

9:49 a.m.

The articles are actually using HOpenGL and HGlut. Whether they satisfy the definition of "GUI library" or not, I don't know. I assumed they did. Sorry. On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Brent Yorgey wrote:

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But OpenGL is not really a GUI library, is it? I think gtk2hs is usually recommended. I've never used it personally but have heard good things from those who have. Hopefully the web page will be back up soon.

-Brent

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:55:45AM +0000, Tom Hobbs wrote:

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Hi Venanzio,

I found the following sites very helpful when trying to understand OpenGL + Haskell.

- http://blog.mikael.johanssons.org/archive/2006/09/opengl-programming-in-hask... - http://myawesomeblag.blogspot.com/2007/03/opengl-tetris-in-haskell.html

My site contains the commands I used to get everything install on Ubuntu, it also has a link to my code on it, but you'll find that the code is very similar to Mikael's above.

http://whatimean.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/simple-cell-automata-in-haskell/

Good luck.

Tom

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Venanzio Capretta wrote:

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Hi, I've been trying to find out what is the best GUI library to use for a Haskell beginner. At first I adopted gtk2hs and it was going well. But the web page for it has disappeared during the Haskell site migration. So now I don't have access to the documentation and the examples any more. Next I tried with wxHaskell, but unfortunately it doesn't install on Ubuntu (I checked on the mailing list: other people had the same problem and I don't understand the solution). Is there a library for GUI in Haskell that is simple to use and well supported, something that is user friendly for a beginner Haskell programmer? Best wishes, Venanzio

_______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

_______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

_______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

aditya siram

9:53 a.m.

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From an ease-of-installation and getting-demos-to-work standpoint, I've had the best time with qtHaskell [1].

-deech [1] http://qthaskell.berlios.de/ On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Brent Yorgey wrote:

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But OpenGL is not really a GUI library, is it? I think gtk2hs is usually recommended. I've never used it personally but have heard good things from those who have. Hopefully the web page will be back up soon.

-Brent

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 09:55:45AM +0000, Tom Hobbs wrote:

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Hi Venanzio,

I found the following sites very helpful when trying to understand OpenGL + Haskell.

- http://blog.mikael.johanssons.org/archive/2006/09/opengl-programming-in-hask... - http://myawesomeblag.blogspot.com/2007/03/opengl-tetris-in-haskell.html

My site contains the commands I used to get everything install on Ubuntu, it also has a link to my code on it, but you'll find that the code is very similar to Mikael's above.

http://whatimean.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/simple-cell-automata-in-haskell/

Good luck.

Tom

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Venanzio Capretta wrote:

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Hi, I've been trying to find out what is the best GUI library to use for a Haskell beginner. At first I adopted gtk2hs and it was going well. But the web page for it has disappeared during the Haskell site migration. So now I don't have access to the documentation and the examples any more. Next I tried with wxHaskell, but unfortunately it doesn't install on Ubuntu (I checked on the mailing list: other people had the same problem and I don't understand the solution). Is there a library for GUI in Haskell that is simple to use and well supported, something that is user friendly for a beginner Haskell programmer? Best wishes, Venanzio

_______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

_______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

_______________________________________________ Beginners mailing list Beginners@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/beginners

John Smith

12:56 p.m.

On 14/12/2010 16:53, aditya siram wrote:

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From an ease-of-installation and getting-demos-to-work standpoint, I've had the best time with qtHaskell [1].

-deech

[1] http://qthaskell.berlios.de/

I've had by far the worst time with qtHaskell, but that may be a platform issue (I'm on Windows) I've found building WxHaskell to be a little easier than Gtk+

Henk-Jan van Tuyl

10:26 a.m.

On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:16:40 +0100, Venanzio Capretta wrote:

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Next I tried with wxHaskell, but unfortunately it doesn't install on Ubuntu (I checked on the mailing list: other people had the same problem and I don't understand the solution).

To get wxHaskell working on Ubuntu (and probably on most other platforms), you need to install the g++ compiler, see: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc/gcc-4.5.1/ I guess you need the file gcc-g++-4.5.1.tar.gz Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl -- http://Van.Tuyl.eu/ http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html --

Henk-Jan van Tuyl

5:12 p.m.

On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:26:56 +0100, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:

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On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:16:40 +0100, Venanzio Capretta wrote:

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Next I tried with wxHaskell, but unfortunately it doesn't install on Ubuntu (I checked on the mailing list: other people had the same problem and I don't understand the solution).

To get wxHaskell working on Ubuntu (and probably on most other platforms), you need to install the g++ compiler, see: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcc/gcc-4.5.1/

I guess you need the file gcc-g++-4.5.1.tar.gz

Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl

It is probably better to give the command: sudo apt-get install g++ I updated the page http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/WxHaskell/Linux Regards, Henk-Jan van Tuyl -- http://Van.Tuyl.eu/ http://members.chello.nl/hjgtuyl/tourdemonad.html --

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