Re: [Haskell-cafe] Level of Win32 GUI support in the Haskell platform

On 30/12/2011 03:43, Chris Wong wrote:

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Steve Horne wrote:

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I've been for functions like GetMessage, TranslateMessage and DispatchMessage in the Haskell Platform Win32 library - the usual message loop stuff - and not finding them. Hoogle says "no results found".

Is this level of Win32 GUI coding supported? (other than by dealing with the FFI myself) I'd recommend using Gtk2hs (http://haskell.org/gtk2hs). It's well supported and your program will work on Mac& Linux& BSD to boot.

Trying to grapple with Win32 APIs isn't exactly my idea of fun. :)

I had dismissed GTK - I assumed getting it set up in Windows would be a bit painful, and figured I'd stick with whats in the Haskell Platform for the moment. I'm already familiar (though very rusty) with Win32 from C - it seemed like an easy if limited option. But I'll take a look at gtk2hs anyway. Thanks.