Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2007 schrieb Miguel Mitrofanov:
Gtk2Hs is good (I suppose), but it requires X. OK, I have X, but it's not "native" on my Mac; some Mac users don't install it and almost all Mac users don't always run it.
the problem is Apple. if you want to have a native gui on OSX then you are either nearly stuck to Objective-C or to obsolete gui libraries. i'm not a mac user, but i know one who is; he told me. on osx there are two main gui apis: carbon and cocoa. carbon is obsolete, but it partially runs on osx -- it is not 64bit compatible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_%28API%29 cocoa is the newer one, which every mac user likes. AFAIK there is no C backend to that api, so you will have to develop a C backend first and then the haskell (or gtk2) wrapper. there are some bindings for other languages, i.e. C#, but no C. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_%28API%29 if you are able to code objective-c and know how to access cocoa using c, please help those gtk developers to port gtk2 to native OSX. it will then automagically work with gtk2hs. - marc