On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 15:18 +0200, Hans van Thiel wrote:
Hello Duncan,
Thanks for your reply, and here's the pdf.
Thanks.
One of the things to be improved, which I note myself, is something on how to do it on the Windows platform.
It's much the same of course, but yes that would be nice.
(This is assuming there is a Glade for Windows.)
There is. It comes with the dev flavour of the Gtk+ installer.
Another thing is the terminology, for example about handles, actions and functions. Glade uses 'signals' and 'callback functions' and you can specify them visually. I believe (I'll have to check this) you can look up the names in a file 'callbacks.c'. Of course you have to substitute those for the Gtk2Hs equivalents, but it might make it easier to find the appropriate ones in the Gtk2Hs API.
We do have slightly different terminology in a few places and usually for good reason. For example the idea of a callback function makes a lot of sense in C where you really do have to have a named function that gets called in response to a signal. I Haskell we don't need a named function of course we can just say: onClicked button $ do ... ...
I'll check out the link you provided in the next few days, and I'm looking forward to your comments. I'll also have to wait and see what Eddy Ahmed, the author of the Glade tutorial, thinks about this idea. It would be nice to reuse that, and to put the Haskell version on his more general web site as well. Why re-invent the wheel..
I'll send you some more comments when I've had a full read through. Perhaps we should use the haskell.org wiki for this. Duncan