[Haskell-cafe] Level of Win32 GUI support in the Haskell platform

Chris Wong chrisyco+haskell-cafe at gmail.com
Fri Dec 30 04:43:20 CET 2011


On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Steve Horne
<sh006d3592 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> I've been for functions like GetMessage, TranslateMessage and
> DispatchMessage in the Haskell Platform Win32 library - the usual message
> loop stuff - and not finding them. Hoogle says "no results found".
>
> Is this level of Win32 GUI coding supported? (other than by dealing with the
> FFI myself)

I'd recommend using Gtk2hs (http://haskell.org/gtk2hs). It's well
supported and your program will work on Mac & Linux & BSD to boot.

Trying to grapple with Win32 APIs isn't exactly my idea of fun. :)

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