fltkhs
Haskell bindings to FLTK GUI toolkit. (by deech)
gi-atk
Generate Haskell bindings for GObject-Introspection capable libraries (by haskell-gi)
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0.0 | 7.0 | |
almost 2 years ago | about 1 month ago | |
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MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
fltkhs
Posts with mentions or reviews of fltkhs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-27.
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A solid GUI Framework for Haskell?
fltkhs is under active maintenance and development: https://github.com/deech/fltkhs/tree/TheGreatConsolidation
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How is it going with desktop apps nowadays? What happened to wxHaskell?
If you want to make a simple desktop GUI, fltkhs — which binds to the FLTK library — is a good bet, as it's the easiest to install of all the Haskell desktop GUI libraries (even on Windows!). Unfortunately, the FLTK library doesn't create the prettiest GUIs in the world (e.g. see the GitHub page). If you care about such things, the author has also released the fltkhs-themes library, which provides a set of widgets with a much nicer style - see the GitHub page for a showcase.
gi-atk
Posts with mentions or reviews of gi-atk.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-09.
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‘Missing C libraries’ when compiling haskell-gi-base on Windows
As far as I can tell, I haven’t explicitly set extra-prog-path to anything in particular. haskell-gi’s package.cabal doesn’t seem to have this variable set either. If it does have some value out of the ordinary, I would have no idea how to figure that out.
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A solid GUI Framework for Haskell?
gi-gtk (part of the haskell-gi project) is still actively maintained and it is in LTS 18.
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Best UI Toolkit for generating UI elements at runtime
Excellent news! For Windows, there’s some detailed documentation on installation, which I personally think is excellent. (Though I may be biased, since I wrote some of it myself!) For Linux, I remember installation being pretty simple last time I tried it (on an Ubuntu VM, as I already mentioned), though I haven’t attempted it again lately.
Followed https://github.com/haskell-gi/haskell-gi#mac-osx
For compilation there are instructions here that should be enough. We also had issues at run time about missing gsettings-schemas. We found a thread for another gtk application which solved our issues with these commands:
It worked. Long story short : upgraded everything, applied Github issue workaround, it worked.
Sorry, not a maintainer (that would be /u/garetxe, I think), just a satisfied user! And a Windows one to boot, so I wouldn’t know about Mac (though I have previously managed to build it on an Ubuntu VM). Perhaps try building it again and submit an issue if it doesn’t work; there’s some relevant documentation here and here which might help.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing fltkhs and gi-atk you can also consider the following projects:
fltkhs-fluid-demos
assimp - Haskell FFI bindings for Assimp
nanovg - NanoVG Haskell bindings
KdTree - Haskell module for K-D trees
dear-imgui.hs - Haskell bindings to Dear ImGui, an immediate mode GUI toolkit
plot-light - A lightweight plotting library, exporting to SVG
freetype-simple - single line text rendering in opengles
fltkhs-demos - Extended FLTKHS demos moved to a separate package to keep the core package free of additional dependencies.
hgrev - Compile Mercurial (hg) version info into Haskell code.
GLUtil - Utility functions for working with OpenGL BufferObjects, GLSL shaders, and textures.
VRML - VRML parser and generator for Haskell
blank-canvas - A Haskell API into HTML5 Canvas