[Haskell-cafe] Call for GUI examples - Functional Reactive Programming

[Daniel Patterson]

Forgot to cc the list

On Jul 8, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Daniel Patterson wrote:

> On Jul 8, 2011, at 3:51 AM, Heinrich Apfelmus wrote:
>> Jason Dagit wrote:
>>> Heinrich Apfelmus wrote:
>>>> Do you know any *small GUI programs* that you would *like* to see
>>>> *implemented with Functional Reactive Programming?*
>>>> 
>>>> I would love to hear your examples, so that I can try to convert them to FRP
>>>> style and test my library against them!
>>> How about a GUI for darcs?
>> 
>> This would involve a lot of functionality unrelated to GUIs. Could you break it down to a minimal "GUI-only" example that still gets the point across?
> 
> 
> What about something that just showed the list of patches for a given repository, which would update when the repository changed? That is deadly simple, but could still be somewhat useful (ie, have it track a relatively central repo, and running on a screen somewhere in the metaphorical office). It would also be wonderful to start on a GUI for darcs, and I could say it might interest _me_ in taking a stab at improving it :) And it might be an example of the kind of open system that was mentioned earlier
> 
> Daniel