Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: I still cannot seem to get a GUI working under Windows.

2010-10-03 Thread Steve Schafer
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 11:02:21 -0700, you wrote: >I imagine someone looking at a lovely app and saying, "Wow -- great >interface! I bet it was programmed in Haskell." While I can agree with the sentiment...well, good luck with that. ;-) -Steve Schafer __

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: I still cannot seem to get a GUI working under Windows.

2010-10-02 Thread Conal Elliott
For another model of GUIs, see Tangible Values ( http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/TV), which is composable MVC. And amen to targeting GPUs. In addition to getting clunky, imperative GUI frameworks like wx & gtk working robustly and easily in Haskell across platforms, I'd love to see more powerf

[Haskell-cafe] Re: I still cannot seem to get a GUI working under Windows.

2010-10-02 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Peter Verswyvelen wrote: Regarding GUIs, I really miss a pure functional framework for doing so. We all do, we all do. ;) Currently I'm using Microsoft's WPF, and that is more or less declarative, a bit like BOOPSI or MUI on the good old Amiga days. But WPF has so many little quirks, not to m

[Haskell-cafe] Re: I still cannot seem to get a GUI working under Windows.

2010-10-02 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Vo Minh Thu wrote: Is it right that by using flattr, you end up donating the same amount of money to every flattred person in a month? Yes. So you can donate more the previous month to some project you value less than another project the next month. This seems weird to me. That's the price

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: I still cannot seem to get a GUI working under Windows.

2010-10-02 Thread Kurt Häusler
On Oct 2, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Peter Verswyvelen wrote: > Regarding GUIs, I really miss a pure functional framework for doing so. > > Currently I'm using Microsoft's WPF, and that is more or less declarative, a > bit like BOOPSI or MUI on the good old Amiga days. But WPF has so many little > quir

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: I still cannot seem to get a GUI working under Windows.

2010-10-02 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
Regarding GUIs, I really miss a pure functional framework for doing so. Currently I'm using Microsoft's WPF, and that is more or less declarative, a bit like BOOPSI or MUI on the good old Amiga days. But WPF has so many little quirks, not to mentioned a weakly typed XML-like language called "XAML"

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: I still cannot seem to get a GUI working under Windows.

2010-10-02 Thread Vo Minh Thu
2010/10/2 Luke Palmer : > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Bulat Ziganshin > wrote: >> Hello Heinrich, >> >> Saturday, October 2, 2010, 1:36:48 PM, you wrote: >> >>> Would you put a flattr button [1] on the wxHaskell page? This way, >>> people like me would be able to show their appreciation by don

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: I still cannot seem to get a GUI working under Windows.

2010-10-02 Thread Luke Palmer
On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Bulat Ziganshin wrote: > Hello Heinrich, > > Saturday, October 2, 2010, 1:36:48 PM, you wrote: > >> Would you put a flattr button [1] on the wxHaskell page? This way, >> people like me would be able to show their appreciation by donating a > > this page doesn't desc

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: I still cannot seem to get a GUI working under Windows.

2010-10-02 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Heinrich, Saturday, October 2, 2010, 1:36:48 PM, you wrote: > Would you put a flattr button [1] on the wxHaskell page? This way, > people like me would be able to show their appreciation by donating a this page doesn't describe how to pay and how to got the money received. if Jeremy lives

[Haskell-cafe] Re: I still cannot seem to get a GUI working under Windows.

2010-10-02 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Jeremy O'Donoghue wrote: Apologies folks, rant coming up... [...] Bear in mind that as I have a (very) demanding day job and a young family, I actually have no more than 3-4 hours a week (at best) to spend maintaining wxHaskell. Bear in mind also that my interest in wxHaskell was always to be

[Haskell-cafe] Re: I still cannot seem to get a GUI working under Windows.

2010-09-29 Thread Ben Franksen
Andrew Coppin wrote: > On 29/09/2010 07:33 PM, Steve Schafer wrote: >> The issue isn't that there aren't a lot of Windows developers who have >> an interest in Haskell+GUI development. The issue is that nearly every >> Windows developer who looks into Haskell+GUI says, "This stuff sucks," >> and