Hi, as for wxHaskell, it is currently maintained at https://github.com/wxHaskell/wxHaskell, compilable with wxWidgets 2.9.5 and GHC 7.6. Work is underway to fix various bugs introduced over time by changes in wxWidgets, but we (i.e. https://github.com/wxHaskell?tab=members) hope to release & announce in not too much time.
cheers, Atze On 30 Sep, 2013, at 20:32 , Conal Elliott <co...@conal.net> wrote: > Hi Conrad, > > Great. The challenge is not specific to Pan, Vertigo, etc. If we can get some > low-level GUI platform working with the characteristics I listed, I can > resurrect and my high-level libraries accordingly. Any GUI program containing > at least one OpenGL window would probably get us most of the way there > (again, noting the properties I listed). > > -- Conal > > > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Conrad Parker <con...@metadecks.org> wrote: > Hi Conal! > > Yes. I'd be very interested to help get Pan and Vertigo working. Do you have > a repo somewhere? > > Conrad. > > > On 27 September 2013 13:32, Conal Elliott <co...@conal.net> wrote: > I'm polling to see whether there are will and expertise to reboot graphics > and GUIs work in Haskell. I miss working on functional graphics and GUIs in > Haskell, as I've been blocked for several years (eight?) due to the absence > of low-level foundation libraries having the following properties: > > * cross-platform, > * easily buildable, > * GHCi-friendly, and > * OpenGL-compatible. > > The last several times I tried Gtk2hs, I was unable to compile it on my Mac. > Years ago when I was able to compile, the GUIs looked and interacted like a > Linux app, which made them awkward and upleasant to use. wxHaskell (whose API > and visual appearance I prefered) has for years been incompatible with GHCi, > in that the second time I open a top-level window, the host process (GHCi) > dies abruptly. Since my GUI & graphics programs are often one-liners, and I > tend to experiment a lot, using a full compilation greatly thwarts my flow. > For many years, I've thought that the situation would eventually improve, > since I'm far from the only person who wants GUIs or graphics from Haskell. > > About three years ago, I built a modern replacement of my old Pan and Vertigo > systems (optimized high-level functional graphics in 2D and 3D), generating > screamingly fast GPU rendering code. I'd love to share it with the community, > but I'm unable to use it even myself. > > Two questions: > > * Am I mistaken about the current status? I.e., is there a solution for > Haskell GUI & graphics programming that satisfies the properties I'm looking > for (cross-platform, easily buildable, GHCi-friendly, and OpenGL-compatible)? > * Are there people willing and able to fix this situation? My own > contributions would be to test and to share high-level composable and > efficient GUI and graphics libraries on top of a working foundation. > > Looking forward to replies. Thanks, > > -- Conal > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe - Atze - Atze Dijkstra, Department of Information and Computing Sciences. /|\ Utrecht University, PO Box 80089, 3508 TB Utrecht, Netherlands. / | \ Tel.: +31-30-2534118/1454 | WWW : http://www.cs.uu.nl/~atze . /--| \ Fax : +31-30-2513971 .... | Email: a...@uu.nl ............... / |___\ _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
