On 02.04.10 18:59, aditya siram wrote:
Yes Haskell is not strong on the GUI end of things but have you considered turning your desktop app into a web app? I've done this for a few things and really enjoyed the process. Haskell's STM is what makes this so nice.
Basically the you start a Haskell service on port <some-large-number> and make AJAX calls to it from your web browser using a CGI script as a go-between. In my case all data flows back and forth as JSON objects. You could just as easily use XML.
For the front-end I used Qooxdoo [1] , an absolutely gorgeous well-documented Javascript GUI framework but there are plenty to choose from.
has anybody tried something similar with qt's new "declarative ui" [1]? i haven't got around playing with it yet, but it should be possible to link haskell and C++ models with a simple network interface. i really hope declarative ui will be included in the next qtHaskell release ... <sk> [1] http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/Graphics/Kinetic/DeclarativeUI