If you don't count interact as a bug. Do getChar/putChar work? putChar works fine, getChar doesn't. I can probably fix this up in the long run, I just don't have a clue where to start for now - the whole flow of control with the message pump, setjmp, polling etc. is quite confusing.
A WinHugs blurb for the User's Guide is important; it doesn't have to be very long. That's easy enough. I'll submit something.
What would :main do? ":main arg1 arg2" would invoke main, but getArgs would return ["arg1","arg2"] for that execution. This would be fantastically useful for testing console programs. This would be a Hugs improvement, not specific to WinHugs.
You might like to check whether HGL works with WinHugs: try running main in hugsdir/demos/HGL/GTest.hs -- it should pop up lots of windows that react to events in different ways (README in that directory gives the details).
First off, it doesn't load. By changing the path from {Hugs}\packages\* to: {Hugs}\packages\HGL;{Hugs}\packages\Win32; I get it to load. Is this a Windows problem, or a more general problem? Once I get it running, typing main brings up all the windows. Unfortunately playing with them gives warnings like: Run-Time Check Failure #0 - The value of ESP was not properly saved across a function call. This is usually a result of calling a function declared with one calling convention with a function pointer declared with a different calling convention. inside incMallocPtrRefCnt And every so often it crashes.
- Need to check whether the Unicode stuff works under Windows. I doubt it, but fundamentally the controls are all operating system controls, and should support unicode. Its just a case of replacing char* and CHAR* for LPTSTR, then checking.
- The plain interpreter hasn't been built under VC++ for some time; someone needs to do that and test it. I did it when I submitted the project files for msc, its fine for basic use, I didn't extensively test it.
- WinHugs builds under MSYS+MinGW, but the executable just hangs. (Not essential to fix this, but would be nice.) I will install the required MSYS+MinGW and see what happens, I wouldn't have expected it to hang, but it should be fixable.
- Someone will have to do the Windows packaging, including the program compiled with VC++ (for the stack overflow protection) and the documentation is HTML Help form. I don't know how to compile the HTML Help, but I'm sure I can figure it out. I have builds of the 3 binaries for Hugs.
Thanks Neil