Hi Iain, I'm taking the liberty of cc'ing wxhaskell-users. Iain said:
I was trying to go through some of the wxHaskell examples, and they wouldn't work on my (Tiger) mac. Same thing happened with a few other wx apps I downloaded from Hackage. A bit of a rummage on the internet turned up an issue with wxMac[1]. You need to put the haskell executable in an OSX Application Bundle or you can't get focus on the window.
Since I don't know how to use XCode (and quickly got bored of trying to find what I needed to do with it for my needs) I setup an applescript that builds a bare bones app bundle, with a basic plist file too.
Thanks for your efforts!
This is probably something others have gone though and, just in case it might be some use to others, I stuck it here (might be a little bit of overkill using Sourceforge, but I wasn't go to pay for the download space on my blog considering I have zero cash right now).
http://sourceforge.net/projects/makebundle/
The applescript has a perl script in it too, so you'll need perl on your machine for it to work. Everything you need to know is in the readme.
I've also done something similar http://koweycode.blogspot.com/2009/09/cabal-installing-graphical-apps-on.htm... only in Haskell and attempting to integrate into a Cabal Setup script. You may want to know about work by Andy Gimblett to package this up nicely: http://www.mail-archive.com/wxhaskell-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00725.h... I hope his work will one day may the macosx-app shell script obsolete. Cheers, -- Eric Kow http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9