Announcement: wxHaskell version 0.2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net The new release has (improved) support for tree controls, list controls, toolbars, splitter windows, sliders, gauges, and bitmap buttons. Screenshots of these widgets on different platforms have been added to the website. Furthermore, there are numerous small bug fixes, especially for wxGTK. A list of non-compatible changes is attached at the end of this mail. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wxHaskell is a portable GUI library for Haskell. The goal of the project is to provide an industrial strength portable GUI library, but without the burden of developing (and maintaining) one ourselves. wxHaskell is therefore build on top of wxWindows -- a comprehensive C++ library that is portable across all major GUI platforms; including GTK, Windows, X11, and MacOS X. Furthermore, it is a mature library (in development since 1992) that supports a wide range of widgets with native look-and-feel, and it has a very active community (ranked among the top 25 most active projects on sourceforge). Since most of the interface is automatically generated from the wxEiffel binding, the current release of wxHaskell already supports about 75% of the wxWindows functionality -- 2766 methods in 505 classes with 1279 constant definitions. wxHaskell has been build with GHC 6.0/6.01 on Windows, MacOS X and Unix systems with GTK. A binary distribution is available for Windows and MacOS X. And even if you don't intend to write GUI's yourself, it will be fun to check out the screenshots at http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net. All the best, Daan Leijen. ps. More funny statistics: the wxWindows libraries have been downloaded over a million times at sourceforge! The Python binding to wxWindows (wxPython) about 600.000 times, and the Haskell binding to wxWindows about 100 times :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Breaking changes to version 0.1: - Renamed the "WXH" layer to "WXCore".
import Graphics.UI.WXCore instead of import Graphics.UI.WXH
- Changed the interface of menu items a bit. The label and help text is now supplied via attributes:
medit <- menuPane [text := "&Edit"] mfont <- menuItem medit [text := "&Font...\tCtrl+F" ,help := "Set the font"]