Here is an answer from a newbie at both Haskell and GUI -- I don't think there is a simple answer. It probably depends on your experience, your development platform, and where you want to be able to distribute your application to. I would say that wxHaskell is probably a good choice. It depends on wxWindows, which seems to be fairly well developed, and is said to work on all reasonable platforms. Here is my story: I've done little GUI programming -- some MS Visual C++ and visual basic years ago, a little perlTK more recently. I have some familiarity with TCL/TK from my perlTK experience. I'm developing on a Linux platform (Slackware 9) and have GHC 6.2.2. I looked at, and tried several of the Haskell libraries as listed at http://www.haskell.org/libraries/#guis Because of my previous experience with TCL/TK, I wanted to use a TK based solution initially. I had problems (I've forgotten what :-) with TCLHaskell, and went on to HTk. The HTk package seems pretty nice, but probably because of my inexperience with Haskell, I found it difficult to understand. wxHaskell seems to be the most popular vehicle, so I decided to look into it, partly based on some advice I got from this list. I had no trouble compiling and installing wxWindows (specifically, wxGTK-2.4.2). I also compiled from source wxHaskell with no problem. Although the documentation is a bit cryptic (for my level of experience, at least), and even though I have no past experience with wxWindows, I am able to figure out how to do what I want to do, so far. So, based on my experience, I can recommend wxHaskell. Best regards, John Velman On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:05:43PM +0100, Dmitri Pissarenko wrote:
Hello!
I want to learn to create GUIs with Haskell.
Which GUI frameworks can you recommend?
Thanks
Dmitri Pissarenko -- Dmitri Pissarenko Software Engineer http://dapissarenko.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe