The wxHaskell development team is pleased to announce the release of wxHaskell 0.11.1, a Haskell binding for the wxWidgets GUI library. The Haskell support is built on a reasonably complete C language binding, which could be used as the basis for wxWidgets support on other languages/platforms which do not have easy mechanisms for linking with C++ code. The main highlights of wxHaskell 0.11.1 are: - Support for XRC resource files, allowing GUI design using a visual tool. Note that this is currently not type safe, and programs will crash if a widget is not cast to the correct type on loading. - Support for wxWidgets 2.8.x. Support for wxWidgets 2.4.2 is now dropped and wxHaskell will not compile against versions of wxWidgets prior to 2.6. This means that exploratory development using GHCi is no longer possible. Workaround is to continue to use older wxHaskell versions. - Support for GHC 6.10 - Preliminary support for Cabal / Hackage The full list of changes is provided at the end of this mail. Binary packages are available from the wxHaskell download site at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=73133, for the following platforms: - Windows - OS X (Intel platform only) - Source code .tar.gz and .zip - Documentation (cross-platform) The wxHaskell libraries (wxcore and wx) are also available from Hackage (http://hackage.haskell.org). About wxHaskell --------------- wxHaskell is a Haskell binding to the wxWidgets GUI library for recent versions of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. It provides a native look and feel on Windows, OS X and Linux, and a medium level programming interface. The main project page for wxHaskell is at http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net. The latest source code for wxHaskell can always be obtained from http://darcs.haskell.org/wxhaskell. There are developer (wxhaskell-devel@lists.sourceforge.net and user (wxhaskell-users@lists.sourceforge.net) mailing lists, and a wiki page at http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/WxHaskell which can provide more information to those interested. The C language binding for wxHaskell was derived from an original C language binding created for the Eiffel programming language by the ELJ project (http://elj.sourceforge.net). Non backward compatible changes: - Preliminary Cabal / Hackage support - Added "--global" argument to configure script - Added "--user" argument to configure script - Changed wxhaskell official web page to Haskell wiki at http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/WxHaskell - Changed official darcs repository to code.haskell.org - Adapted the wxHaskell C-layer to work with wxWidgets 2.8 - Adapted some part of wxcore API to be able to refer to wxWidgets 2.8 documentation for wxcore functions - Added "TopLevelWindow", which mainly removes some functionality from "Frame" - Changed "--with-stc" argument to "--with-contrib" - Removed "Wave" type synonym Backward compatible additions: - Added support for using XRC resource files to load most controls and menus attached to frames. - Added sample file showing how to use XRC support to attach command handlers to menu items - Added sample file showing how to use properties with many controls. - Added "--enable-optimization" argument to configure script - Added "--O*" argument to configure script - Added "--enable-library-profiling" argument to configure script - Added "--p" argument to configure script - Added "-fvia-C" argument to configure script. And moved this compilation flag to configure script - Added Image / ByteString conversion functions - Adapted the configuration to work with GHC 6.10. - Changed "Var" type synonym from "IORef" to stm's "TVar" for thread safety - Changed "imageGetPixelArray" and "imageCreateFromPixelArray" to be more flexible. - Changed "Point", "Size", "Vector" and "Rect" to be type synonym. - Added "wxcMilliSleep". Now, "wxcAppUSleep" is deprecated. Use "wxcMilliSleep" instead - Added very experimental wxGraphicsContext support - Added wxSVGFileDC functions Bugfixes: - Applied DEPRECATED pragma to old deprecated functions. Just documented in Haddock before. - Fixed "processExecAsync" hangs Windows GUI-only program - Fixed Windows binary install problem when path with spaces (bug 1400488) - Probably fixed the applicattion failed to initialize properly when using Windows binary. -- Jeremy O'Donoghue jeremy.odonoghue@gmail.com -- Jeremy O'Donoghue jeremy.odonoghue@gmail.com