On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 16:12 +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
By "this code is currently broken", I'm sure you are right, but which code you mean exactly? The Win32 binding for GHC? Or the Hugs Graphics Library (HGL) implementation for GHC?
The HGL for GHC and therefore also the current SOE impl which is based upon HGL.
It'd be good to have a Trac bug report, specifying as precisely as possible what is broken.
I am afraid that I do not know what is wrong with it, I've just heard tell from many users and other developers that it is broken in some way. Paul Hudak told me that he had discussed the state of it with Simon Marlow and that neither of them were keen on fixing the Win32 impl of HGL because debugging it has proved to be a nightmare in the past. Hence Paul is currently evaluating an alternative implementation of SOE based on Gtk2Hs (this also provides some other benefits like anti-aliased rendering). Duncan