"Jefferson Heard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been looking for awhile now for a simple way to get truetype > fonts into my visualizations so I can abandon the hideous GLUT fonts > and make things that look like they were developed in the 1990s > instead of back in the days of TRON. I found FTGL, but I'm mostly a > Haskell developer these days, and resent having to go back to C just > to write a simple application. > > So I was wondering if anyone had ever wrapped the FTGL library in > Haskel FFI or whether those out there who are experts on the FFI > think at first glance it should be readily wrappable by a rank > amateur at FFI such as myself. > > http://ftgl.sourceforge.net/docs/html/ > Using the FFI is generally straight forward, as long as you can live with using the IO monad and the C code uses objects (well, pointers to structs passed as first argument, where's the difference...).
Things only depend on the purity of the C code and how high-level you want your interface to be. In this case, I estimate half an hour if you're a fast typist. That includes the time needed to read the FFI docs. -- (c) this sig last receiving data processing entity. Inspect headers for past copyright information. All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, hiring, renting, public performance and/or broadcasting of this signature prohibited. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe