Gee, wizzz, folks. Thank you all for the many hints. I can't say yet which one I'll dive into but I'm in good spirits about Haskell and GUI now. I like the idea of a functional approach and I don't need extensive GUIs either, so Grapefruit just added another candidate... Using the Cocoa API or AppleScript bindings is very slick (I'll look into that), but I think I'd rather have a platform independent solution for my class. I'll do my best to post a beginners tutorial on the web where it may be found, but it'll likely be in German. I will definitely continue to recommend Haskell to my colleagues. Thanks again for your support, Torsten Am 17.01.2008 um 15:09 schrieb Wolfgang Jeltsch:
Am Dienstag, 15. Januar 2008 20:42 schrieb Conal Elliott:
If you can get wxHaskell installed & working, you could try Phooey and/or TV. Both are described on the Haskell wiki and available via darcs and Hackage.
And they have the interesting property of being a functional approach to GUI programming (similar to FranTk). Most of the other Haskell GUI toolkits are imperative in nature.
And now my shameless plug: If you can get Gtk2Hs installed and working, you could try Grapefruit which is also a functional library. In addition to GUIs, it also supports animated graphics. At the moment, it’s main downside is that it supports only a small set of widgets (buttons, labels, edit fields and boxes). See http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Grapefruit.
Best wishes, Wolfgang _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe