Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote: > Neil Mitchell wrote: > >> Hi Bulat, >> >> >>> afaik, there are just two good enough libs - wxHaskell and GtkHs. can >>> anyone point (or write) detailed comparison of their features? i plan >>> to write large GUI program in Haskell and want to select best one. >>> the requirements that i can imagine at this moment is the following: >>> >> I used to use wxHaskell. >> > > So did I. I tried gtk2hs as well. In my experience, gtk2hs is more > complicated. On the other hand, gtk2hs supports glade, I think. > OK, i feel like i need to give my personal opinion about this.
I have been using Gtk2Hs since a bit more of a year now, and though i don't consider myself a GUI guy, i gotta say it _has_ been very easy to use for me. Most of the operations while reasoning in terms of the gtk2hs API summarizes up on: - Creating windows - Creating and adding containers into these windows with a specific layout. - Creating and adding objects (widgets) inside these containers. - Link widget-specific events with Haskell functions implementing the desired functionality. Each of these general operations translate to very well defined functions, making it a very concise and easy-to-use API imho; plus you have the automatic garbage collection feature. Besides that, you have plenty of very good documentation on the gtk2hs web site; even with a hoogle interface to search on the API. I really don't see where it is the complicated part. > wxHaskell seems to be easier to understand and to use. In my case, I > took a reversi game from haskell.org and did a sudoku game in a few > weeks (with no prior knowledge on wxHaskell). > > I wanted to write a GUI program using GHC > >> 6.4.2 and was (disturbingly) shocked to find out that _neither_ of the >> GUI toolkits had prebuilt packages that worked on Windows with GHC >> 6.4.2. I complained and within a day Duncan had done one for Gtk2Hs, >> and to my knowledge wxHaskell still doesn't have such a packaged >> version. >> >> > > I'm using Gentoo Linux. We obviously don't use prebuilt packaged > versions, but installing it is just doing "emerge wxhaskell" and > 'playing the... waiting game'. Gtk2hs support under Gentoo is mostly > missing (the package is included, but doesn't work at all). > > We even have a gtk2hs darcs repository (optional to the stable package) version available on Gentoo through the Haskell overlay. Though we appreciate if you give us more detail about the 'missing' support. >> For this reason, I would recommend Gtk2Hs - the level of support and >> maintainership is far better than wxHaskell at the moment. I >> appreciate wxHaskell has new maintainers, but when picking a GUI >> toolkit where you can't easily switch later, currently maintained is a >> big bullet point for me! >> I agree. Regards, _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
