Re: [GUI] Some random thought of my own

--- Nick Name wrote: This probably belongs in GUI and events/callback thread. I must say it is a good idea to compromise the heated event/callback discussion. I have not seen a really cool feature of events yet.

===== 2. How is a widget created? Everyone seems to agree on

createSomething :: SomethingConfiguration -> IO Something

notice how readable is

runGUI (window (vBox [label "Hello World!",w])

This is a very cool idea. I do think it is a bit on the Fudgets (experimental) side of things though. For CGA I would probably lean against such an idea since it hasn't be practically proven. I'm not sure how often I would use this in my day-to-day gui coding. I do really like the idea of "lazily" creating widgets as it is much in the spirit of haskell ;-).

- We could have two constructors for a button, one "a la GIO" and one with standard function syntax, wich is more readable in some cases. Example:

button "Hi all"

versus

button [label=:"Hi all"]

Although the GOI Attributes are extremely verbose in comparison to the standard functional syntax, I see them to be superior in many ways: those unfamiliar with CGA would have a much better time picking up the syntax, and it also shows itself to be an improvement of the Object Oriented style of default parameters.

- We need to consider the loading from resource files as a constructor, not everything is pragmatic. I think this is not a big

I personally think this is out of scope for an initial release of CGA, but this is most definitely something to keep in mind. You've got some very interesting ideas, I hope you continue to participate in this group. David J. Sankel