Announcements

New application: Xiangqiboard

January 4th, 2008

Ralph Glass has written a new game using Gtk2hs. Screenshots and downloads at http://xiangqiboard.blogspot.com/. Thanks Ralph!

Gtk2Hs 0.9.12.1 released

November 8th, 2007

Gtk2Hs version 0.9.12.1 is now available from:

http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/download/

The source tarball and an installer for Windows are available. Packages for various platforms should become available soon, hopefully including Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, FreeBSD and Darwin.

Changes since 0.9.12:

  • builds with GHC 6.8.1
  • updated SOE API to match that of the recent SOE release
  • added status icon binding
  • added text buffer clipboard functions
  • fix build issue with recent glib versions
  • a few minor bug fixes

Gtk2Hs 0.9.12 released

July 27th, 2007

Gtk2Hs version 0.9.12 is now available from:

http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/download/

The source tarball and an installer for Windows are available. Packages for various platforms should become available soon, hopefully including Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, FreeBSD and Darwin.

Changes since 0.9.11:

  • ps, pdf and svg cairo backends are now supported
  • drag & drop support added
  • can run mainGUI in GHCi after :reload
  • Graphics.SOE.Gtk now works with threaded rts and GHCi
  • Windows build now includes OpenGL and SourceView packages
  • c2hs no longer chokes on some system headers (eg glibc-2.4)
  • various bug fixes and minor code cleanups
  • major overhaul of the code generator (will help binding Gtk+ 2.10)

Gtk2Hs 0.9.11 released

February 28th, 2007

Gtk2Hs version 0.9.11 is now available from:

http://haskell.org/gtk2hs/download/

The source tarball and an installer for Windows are available. Packages are available for Gentoo and FreeBSD. Packages for various other platforms should become available soon (hopefully including Fedora, Debian and Darwin).

Update: there was a bug in the windows installer which is now fixed. So if you downloaded the windows version and nothing worked, please download again. Sorry!

Changes since 0.9.10:

  • works with GHC 6.6 and Gtk+ 2.10.x
  • new typed tree/list widget API
  • new OpenGL widget added
  • new cairo SVG package (for rendering SVG images on cairo surfaces)
  • new implementation of the Graphics.SOE API
  • new glade tutorial
  • many more demo programs (clock, graph, traffic congestion sim, fonts, noughts & crosses, opengl, svg and updated profile viewer and other tree/list demos)
  • much smaller binaries (thanks to the ghc ’split objs’ feature)
  • many bugs fixed
  • new functions for working with the threaded RTS
  • various minor documentation improvements