Re: [Haskell-cafe] Win32 GUI bindings

2006-06-27 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi Jason, As far as I am aware, the Win32 bindings are not that well maintained currently, and programming against the Win32 API is quite painful since it is a very low level, and very C like API. Gtk2Hs does require additional dependancies, but seems to be the most actively developed version. W

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Win32 GUI bindings

2006-06-27 Thread Jason Dagit
On 6/26/06, Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Jason, [snip] can't you ask library maintainers to compile their libs for ghc 6.5. it should come out in several months and i think it's the time when library maintainers can start to check whether new ghc version can work with their

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Win32 GUI bindings

2006-06-27 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Jason, Tuesday, June 27, 2006, 8:48:53 AM, you wrote: > but it turned out to be a real pain. I'm using visual haskell so that > I have COM support (I need the version of H/Direct that ships with > VisualHaskell and VisuallHaskell only ships with ghc 6.5) and that > means I have to compile

[Haskell-cafe] Win32 GUI bindings

2006-06-26 Thread Jason Dagit
I'm looking for recommendations (testimonials?) for GUI libraries for haskell (ghc 6.5) on the win32 platform that meet my requirements below. But first, I try to motivate my question. Bit of background: I work at a smallish software company and I've been given a project where I'm supposed to cr