[Haskell-cafe] Re: ANNOUNCE: wxAsteroids 1.0

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:34:06 +0100, "Henk-Jan van Tuyl" wrote:

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:41:57 +0100, Henk-Jan van Tuyl wrote:

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Your space ship enters an asteroid belt, try to avoid collisions!

wxAsteroids is a game demonstrating the wxHaskell GUI.

More about this at: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/wxAsteroids

Maybe I should add more informationn to this:

The main purpose of this game is to learn how to use wxHaskell; it also shows, in the main function, how a cabalized program can find its data files.

I don't want to take the credit for this program; I took the source code and images from the paper: wxHaskell - A Portable and Concise GUI Library for Haskell [1] by Daan Leijen. If you want to learn how to use wxHaskell, I can advise you to read this paper.

Daan gave me permission to publish the code with a BSD license.

[1] http://legacy.cs.uu.nl/daan/download/papers/wxhaskell.pdf

This sounds entertaining, but according to the HaskellWiki entry for GuiTV (see http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/GuiTV), "wxHaskell ... can be difficult to install." Has this difficulty been resolved? I am somewhat hesitant to install wxHaskell because of this reported difficulty. Has anybody had any recent difficulties in installing this package combination on Windows XP Professional, Service Pack 2? -- Benjamin L. Russell -- Benjamin L. Russell / DekuDekuplex at Yahoo dot com http://dekudekuplex.wordpress.com/ Translator/Interpreter / Mobile: +011 81 80-3603-6725 "Furuike ya, kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto." -- Matsuo Basho^