Re: Haskell Xlib bindings

hoelz:

Ross Paterson wrote:

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Rob Hoelz wrote:

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My question is this: Why do the Haskell Xlib bindings have no way to extract the property event from an event pointer?

For example, the following functions are available:

get_KeyEvent, get_ButtonEvent, get_MotionEvent, etc.

but there's no get_PropertyEvent.

Why was this left out? It seems pretty critical to the functionality of an Xlib program to someone who's been programming in C with Xlib for quite some time.

It wasn't left out, it just wasn't put in, like a lot of other things. If you have a list of stuff you need, it can be added.

Actually, I wouldn't mind doing it myself. Are the Haskell libs compiler-specific, or central? Either way, is there a CVS/subversion/git repository I can check out from?

Great! You can get most Haskell software via darcs repositories, (http://darcs.net) , and X11 is no exception: $ darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/packages/X11 Copying patch 17 of 99... General information for developing Haskell libraries is available here: http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/How_to_write_a_Haskell_program and covers the toolchain and best practices. Cheers, Don