What User Interface Library would you recommend for use under Windows? I tried FranTk but it crashes as soon as I run the display function (under hugs) and with ghc it won't even compile (I already tinkered with the makefiles, so finally I could make the package, but then the demos won't compile). Any ideas, suggestions? Markus
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:21:22 +0100, <Markus.Schnell@infineon.com> wrote:
What User Interface Library would you recommend for use under Windows?
Unfortunately, there is no official GUI library for Haskell yet (but many people are working toward this goal at the haskell gui mailing list). At the moment, the best solution on windows (in my opionion) is to use the ObjectIO library that ships with GHC 5.04.2. You need to look at some examples to get started but it is pretty stable and useable. Unfortunately, it seems though that no one actively maintains it... Another solution could be the HTk library but I have no experience with it. Fortunately though, people are working on a good portable GUI solution for Haskell so I expect that over a few months the situation will be better. All the best, Daan.
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 04:21:22PM +0100, Markus.Schnell@infineon.com wrote:
What User Interface Library would you recommend for use under Windows? I tried FranTk but it crashes as soon as I run the display function (under hugs) and with ghc it won't even compile (I already tinkered with the makefiles, so finally I could make the package, but then the demos won't compile).
Any ideas, suggestions? There has been a lot of discussions about defining a common API for GUIs, you get an impression when you read the archives for gui@haskell.org. HToolkit+Ports+GIO tries to provide functionality that works with Gtk and Win32 as backend. In contrast, there is the more complete gtk2hs binding which uses Gtk 2.0 on Unix, Windows and Mac (more info from me). There is Object I/O wich is specific to Windows and comes with GHC. There are more options like HGL which is more for graphics AFAIK and higher-level approaches like Fudgets (not for Windows). There is no best way right now so it would be wrong to give a definite answer here.
Hope this helps, Axel.
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