
I want to choose a GUI library for my project. Some background: I'm a beginner to functional programming and have been working through Haskell books for a few months now. I'm not just learning Haskell for s**ts and giggles; my purpose is to write music-composition-related code; in particular, I want to write a graphical musical score editor. (Why write my own editor, you may ask? Because I want to fully integrate it with computer-assisted-composition algorithms that I plan to write, also in Haskell.) I decided to use Haskell for its great features as a functional programming language. Regarding a choice of GUI library, I want these factors: - it needs to provide at a minimum a drawing surface, a place I can draw lines and insert characters, in addition to all the standard widgets and layout capabilities we have to come to expect from a GUI library. - This is a Windows application. - it needs to be non-confusing for an intermediate-beginner Haskeller. Hopefully good documentation and examples will exist on the web. - It might be nice to have advanced graphics capability such as Qt provides, things like antialiasied shapes, and a canvas with efficient refresh (refereshes only the area that was exposed, and if your canvas items are only primitives, it can do refreshes from within C++ (no need to touch your Haskell code at all). However I'm wondering if qtHaskell fits my criteria "well-documented" and "lots of examples aimed at beginners". Thanks, Mike