On 30/12/2011 03:43, Chris Wong wrote:

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Steve Horne wrote:

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I've been for functions like GetMessage, TranslateMessage and DispatchMessage in the Haskell Platform Win32 library - the usual message loop stuff - and not finding them. Hoogle says "no results found".

Is this level of Win32 GUI coding supported? (other than by dealing with the FFI myself) I'd recommend using Gtk2hs (http://haskell.org/gtk2hs). It's well supported and your program will work on Mac& Linux& BSD to boot.

Trying to grapple with Win32 APIs isn't exactly my idea of fun. :)

I had dismissed GTK - I assumed getting it set up in Windows would be a bit painful, and figured I'd stick with whats in the Haskell Platform for the moment. I'm already familiar (though very rusty) with Win32 from C - it seemed like an easy if limited option. But I'll take a look at gtk2hs anyway. Thanks.

On 30/12/2011 04:07, Chris Smith wrote:

On Fri, 2011-12-30 at 01:53 +0000, Steve Horne wrote:

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I've been for functions like GetMessage, TranslateMessage and DispatchMessage in the Haskell Platform Win32 library - the usual message loop stuff - and not finding them. Hoogle says "no results found". I see them in the Win32 package.

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/Win32/2.2.1.0/doc/html/Graphics-... Ah - I didn't look in Graphics.Win32.Window because those functions don't relate to Windows. Clearly I gave up my search too easily - thanks.

I'm using Gtk2hs in windows (and linux) with no big problems. Cairo also works. Glade does not allow me to use accents in the user interfaces on windows, but otherwise works ok. I haven't tried wx on windows. It works on linux and it provides a more "natural" interface (gtk will look like gtk also in windows). I found wx a bit limited (I couldn't dock my app into the traybar), but it was enough to write a sudoku UI. I'm releasing apps using gtk2hs on windows and my clients haven't complained so far. You'll need to strip your apps if you are planning to distribute them, otherwise you'll carry more than 15MB with every executable. Cheers, Ivan. On 30 December 2011 05:49, Mikhail Glushenkov wrote:

Hi,

Steve Horne writes:

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I've been for functions like GetMessage, TranslateMessage and DispatchMessage in the Haskell Platform Win32 library - the usual message loop stuff - and not finding them. Hoogle says "no results found".

Haskell Platform includes the Win32 package which provides access to these functions. Hoogle doesn't index Windows-only packages, unfortunately.

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