On 7/5/06, Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 16:06 -0700, Jason Dagit wrote:
I can't help with gtk2hs as I haven't tried it yet, but I hear the dev community is much more alive and very helpful. My main concerns with gtk2hs were 1) I need a native look 'n feel
This is a common misconception. Gtk+ uses the windows native theming dlls so look pretty good. See some of our screen shots: http://www.haskell.org/gtk2hs/gallery/HRay
If you do find any places where it doesn't match the native theme then please report them in the Gtk+ bugzilla.
What about file dialogs? Perhaps it's just GIMP but I thought it was all gtk programs that used the really out-of-place file dialogs on windows (I think gaim uses the same ones). I looked at some of your screenshots. Looks better overall than I remembered.
2) ease of distribution with my application.
Is there something specific we could improve here?
I haven't tried this myself; I was going by word of mouth. The testimonial appears here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe/13378
Note that if you're building a standalone app then you can just bundle all the Gtk+ .dll files in your apps install directory and it'll work fine. So there's no need to have users install Gtk+ separately, you can include all the stuff into one installer.
Ah, that's good to know. I may not be using haskell on my project after all :( but I'll keep this in mind for future oppurtunities. Thanks, Jason