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== What is it? ==
  
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wxHaskell is therefore built on top of [http://www.wxwidgets.org wxWidgets] – a comprehensive C++ library that is portable across all major GUI platforms; including GTK, Windows, X11, and MacOS X. Furthermore, it is a mature library (in development since 1992) that supports a wide range of widgets with the native look-and-feel, and it has a very active community (ranked among the top 25 most active projects on sourceforge).
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wxHaskell is therefore built on top of [http://www.wxwidgets.org wxWidgets] – a comprehensive C++ library that is portable across all major GUI platforms; including GTK, Windows, X11, and MacOS X. Furthermore, it is a mature library (in development since 1992) that supports a wide range of widgets with the native look-and-feel.
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The current version of wxHaskell supports wxWidgets 2.9 and 3.0. For wxWidgets 3.0, Windows users can easily install wxWidgets together with wxHaskell, using a [https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxhaskell/files/wxInstall/ wxInstall package].
   
 
== Status ==
  
== Status ==
   
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Since the core interface is generated automatically from the [http://elj.sourceforge.net/projects/gui/ewxw/ wxEiffel] binding, about 90% of the wxWidgets functionality is already supported, excluding more &quot;exotic&quot; widgets like dockable windows. Most work is currently directed into writing a Haskellized version of the wxWidgets API. The library currently supports Windows, GTK (Linux) and MacOS X.
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The core interface of wxHaskell was originally derived from the [http://elj.sourceforge.net/projects/gui/ewxw/ wxEiffel] binding. Work on this has been dormant for several years, but the wxHaskell maintainers now support updates to the wxWidgets API themselves.
   
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There are four key components of wxHaskell from version 0.90 onwards (three in earlier branches).
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* wxdirect parses specially written C headers and generates low level Haskell FFI bindings for the exported functions.
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* wxc is a C language binding for wxWidgets. It is needed because the Haskell FFI can only bind to C as it does not understand C++ name mangling. Because it is a C language wrapper over wxWidgets, and is generated as a standard dynamic library on all supported platforms, wxc could be used as the basis for a wxWidgets wrapper for any language which supports linking to C (so that would be all of them then). In older versions of wxHaskell, the wxc components were built as a monolithic static library with wxcore.
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* wxcore is a set of low-level Haskell bindings to wxc. A large part is generated automatically by wxdirect, with some key abstractions being hand-coded in Haskell. You can program directly to the wxcore interface if you wish (it is sometimes the only way, in fact).
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* wx is a set of higher-level wrappers over wxcore. It is intended to make it easier to write reasonably idiomatic Haskell. Most wxHaskell software is about 80% wx and 20% wxcore.
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The C wrapper is, unfortunately, generated by hand, so there is some (mainly tedious boilerplate) work involved in porting a new set of widgets to wxHaskell. Some work has been done into automating this aspect, but we are far from being able to replicate the approach reliably over then entire API as yet.
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From the perspective of the user (rather than the developer) about 90% of the core wxWidgets functionality is already supported, excluding more &quot;exotic&quot; widgets like dockable windows. The library supports Windows, GTK (Linux) and macOS X.
   
 
== News ==
  
== News ==
   
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; 28 April 2017: wxHaskell 0.92.3 is released.
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<dl><dt>23 March 2008</dt>
  
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; 30 December 2015: wxInstall Achelanne 0.1 and wxHaskell 0.92.2 are released.
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<dd>wxHaskell 0.10.3 is [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=73133 released].</dd>
  
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; 9 October 2015: wxInstall Abriline packages and wxHaskell 0.92.1 are released.
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<dt>20 January 2007</dt><dd>wxHaskell has a new set of maintainers, led by Jeremy O'Donoghue. We are working on a release for version 0.10, with Uni
  
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; 27 August 2015: wxHaskell 0.92.0 is released.
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code support, a Cabalized build process and more. All recent development is taking place under a new darcs repository (darcs get http://darcs.haskell.org/wxhaskell).</dd></dl>
  
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; 12 August 2014: wxHaskell 0.91.0 is released. This version accepts wxWidgets 2.9 and 3.0.
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; 21 March 2014: wxHaskell 0.90.1 is released.
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See also [[wxHaskell/Old wxHaskell news | Old wxHaskell news]]
   
 
== Documentation ==
  
== Documentation ==
   
 
* [http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html Screenshots]
  
* [http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html Screenshots]
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** [http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net/samples.html Samples]
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** [http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net/samples.html Samples] ( the links to the source code on that page are broken, but you can see the sources [https://github.com/wxHaskell/wxHaskell/tree/master/samples here] )
 
** [http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net/applications.html Applications]
  
** [http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net/applications.html Applications]
 
* [[/Documentation/|Using wxHaskell]]
  
* [[/Documentation/|Using wxHaskell]]
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** [[/Short guide/]]
  
** [[/Short guide/]]
 
** [[/Tips and tricks/]]
  
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** [https://hackage.haskell.org/package/wx/docs/doc-index.html Index] of the wx API documentation
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** [https://hackage.haskell.org/package/wxcore-0.92.0.0/docs/doc-index.html Index] of the wxcore API documentation
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** [[WxHaskell/Hierarchy | The hierarchy of the C++ classes of wxWidgets, as mapped in wxHaskell]]
 
* [[/Download/]]
  
* [[/Download/]]
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*[[/Building/|Building and installing]]
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* Building and installing. Please refer to your platform.
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** [[/Building_on_Linux|...on linux]]
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** [[/Linux/]]
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** [[/Mac/]]
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** [[/Building_on_Cygwin|...on Windows (cygwin)]]
  
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** [[/Building_on_Windows|... on Windows (msc)]]
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** [[/Windows/]]
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** Additional information here. Please help migrating these parts to their appropriate platform.
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** [[/Building_on_MacOS_X|.. on MacOS X]]
  
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** [[/Troubleshooting/]]
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*** [[/2.8/|wxWidgets 2.8.x]]
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*** [[/0.13/|wxHaskell 0.13 for wxWidgets 2.8.x]]
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*** [[WxHaskell/Building]]
 
*[[/Development/]]
  
*[[/Development/]]
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** [[/Development/Environment | Working on wxHaskell]]
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** [[/Development/Debugging | Debugging]]
 
*[[/Contribute/]]
  
*[[/Contribute/]]
   
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== Installation ==
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== Resources ==
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* [http://sourceforge.net/p/wxhaskell/_list/tickets Tickets for bugs and feature requests]
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* [https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wxhaskell-devel The developer mailing list (wxhaskell-devel)] [http://sourceforge.net/p/wxhaskell/mailman/wxhaskell-devel/ (archive)]
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The [[WxHaskell/Install | wxHaskell install]] page contains details of different people's experience in compiling and installing wxHaskell against various versions of wxWidgets on various platforms.
  
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* [http://sourceforge.net/p/wxhaskell/mailman/wxhaskell-users/ The wxHaskell users mailing list (wxhaskell-users)] [http://sourceforge.net/p/wxhaskell/mailman/wxhaskell-users/ (archive)]
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* [https://github.com/wxHaskell/wxHaskell wxHaskell repository], as of 2 Aug 2013 replacing the [https://github.com/jodonoghue/wxHaskell old repo] and [https://github.com/atzedijkstra/wxHaskell temporary maintenance repo] on GitHub
   
 
== External links ==
  
== External links ==
   
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* Daan Leijen: [http://www.cs.uu.nl/~daan/download/papers/wxhaskell.pdf wxHaskell / A Portable and Concise GUI Library for Haskell] (pdf)
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* Daan Leijen: [[media:wxhaskell.pdf | wxHaskell - A Portable and Concise GUI Library for Haskell]]
 
* Wei Tan: [http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs4132/lecture/wlta543.pdf GUI programming with wxHaskell] (pdf)
  
* Wei Tan: [http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~cs4132/lecture/wlta543.pdf GUI programming with wxHaskell] (pdf)
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20091220115259/http://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/course/afp/lab1.html Assignment 1] part of the course (Web Archive)
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* Koen Lindström Claessen: Graphical User Interfaces in Haskell], slides ([http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Grundutb/Kurser/afp/slides-GUI.pdf pdf], [http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Grundutb/Kurser/funht/lec-6a-GUI.ppt ppt])
  
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* [http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Grundutb/Kurser/afp/wxhaskell.html WxHaskell] part of the course [http://www.cs.chalmers.se/Cs/Grundutb/Kurser/afp/ Advanced Functional Programming], by [http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~koen/ Koen Lindström Claessen] and [http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~bringert/ Björn Bringert], a portal like page (html)
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[http://www.cse.chalmers.se/edu/course/afp/index.html Advanced Functional Programming], by [http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~koen/ Koen Lindström Claessen] and [http://www.cse.chalmers.se/alumni/bringert/ Björn Bringert], a portal like page (html)
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* [https://en.wordpress.com/tag/wxhaskell/ Blog articles about wxHaskell]
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* [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/wxhaskell Questions about wxHaskell] on Stack Overflow
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* Sander Evers, Peter Achten, and Jan Kuper: [https://web.archive.org/web/20110724164915/http://www.st.cs.ru.nl/papers/2005/eves2005-FFormsIFL04.pdf A Functional Programming Technique for Forms in GUI] (PDF, from the Web Archive)
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* [http://www.sandr.dds.nl/FunctionalForms/ FunctionalForms], a combinator library/domain specific language for wxHaskell which enables a very concise programming style for forms (not maintained since 2005)
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* [https://wewantarock.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/building-a-text-editor-part-1/ Learning by Example Beginners]: a Text Editor
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* [https://wewantarock.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/custom-controls-in-wxhaskell-part-1/ Learning by Example Intermediate]: Custom controls
   
 
== See also ==
  
== See also ==
   
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* The [http://packdeps.haskellers.com/reverse/wx reverse dependencies list for wx]
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* [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/GUI The Haskell wikibook GUI chapter]
  
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* [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/wxhnotepad An example of how to implement a basic notepad with wxHaskell]
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* [http://autoforms.sourceforge.net Autoforms]
  
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* [http://www.mail-archive.com/wxhaskell-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01178.html Reducing linking and startup times]
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* [http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/classes/cs490/03-04b/bartholomew.robinson/ WxFruit]
  
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* [http://sourceforge.net/p/wxhaskell/feature-requests/6/ Modified Paint.hs example] to show wxGCDC and graphics path drawing in action.
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* [http://www.haskell.org/jcp/hw05.pdf Can GUI Programming Be Liberated From The IO Monad]
  
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* [https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/GUI The Haskell wikibook GUI chapter]
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* [[Phooey]]: a purely functional layer on top of WxHaskell
  
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* [https://lindstroem.wordpress.com/2008/05/21/using-wxgeneric/ WxGeneric]
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* [[GuiTV]]: GUI-based tangible values & composable interfaces, on [[TV]], [[Phooey]] and WxHaskell.
  
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* [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.167.3926&rep=rep1&type=pdf Can GUI Programming Be Liberated From The IO Monad]
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* [[GuiTV]]: GUI-based tangible values & composable interfaces, on [[TV]], [[Phooey]] and wxHaskell.
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* [[wxAsteroids]]: a game demonstrating wxHaskell.
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* [[GeBoP]]: the General Boardgames Player, offers a set of board games: Ataxx, Bamp, Halma, Hex, Kram, Nim, Reversi, TicTacToe, and Zenix.
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* [https://github.com/JohnLato/Haskell-BlackBoard/blob/master/README.md Haskell-BlackBoard:] a drawing application for making slideshows and videos, based on wxHaskell and [[Functional Reactive Programming]]
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* [[Reactive-banana|reactive-banana]] - FRP library with bindings to wxHaskell.
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* [http://uu-computerscience.github.io/js-asteroids/ wxHaskell for the web]: a port of a subset of wxHaskell to the web browser.
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* [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15867654/wx-haskell-drag-and-drop-example wxHaskell Drag and Drop example] (Stack Overflow)
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* The package [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/binding-wx binding-wx]; binds mutable data and lists to wxHaskell widgets.
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* [http://wxhaskell.sourceforge.net/applications.html Application screenshots]
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* [http://foswiki.cs.uu.nl/foswiki/Dazzle/WebHome Dazzle] (see also [http://www.cs.uu.nl/dazzle/f08-schrage.pdf Haskell Ready to Dazzle the Real World] (PDF))
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* [ https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Andrew.Butterfield/Saoithin/ Unifying Theories of Programming Theorem Prover U·(TP)2]
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* [https://github.com/bendmorris/pssat Protein Secondary Structure Alignment Tool] - performs a probabilistic alignment of predicted secondary structures, and generates HTML output
   
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Revision as of 13:33, 28 June 2017


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What is it?

wxHaskell is a portable and native GUI library for Haskell. The goal of the project is to provide an industrial strength GUI library for Haskell, but without the burden of developing (and maintaining) one ourselves.

wxHaskell is therefore built on top of wxWidgets – a comprehensive C++ library that is portable across all major GUI platforms; including GTK, Windows, X11, and MacOS X. Furthermore, it is a mature library (in development since 1992) that supports a wide range of widgets with the native look-and-feel.

The current version of wxHaskell supports wxWidgets 2.9 and 3.0. For wxWidgets 3.0, Windows users can easily install wxWidgets together with wxHaskell, using a wxInstall package.

Status

The core interface of wxHaskell was originally derived from the wxEiffel binding. Work on this has been dormant for several years, but the wxHaskell maintainers now support updates to the wxWidgets API themselves.

There are four key components of wxHaskell from version 0.90 onwards (three in earlier branches).

  • wxdirect parses specially written C headers and generates low level Haskell FFI bindings for the exported functions.
  • wxc is a C language binding for wxWidgets. It is needed because the Haskell FFI can only bind to C as it does not understand C++ name mangling. Because it is a C language wrapper over wxWidgets, and is generated as a standard dynamic library on all supported platforms, wxc could be used as the basis for a wxWidgets wrapper for any language which supports linking to C (so that would be all of them then). In older versions of wxHaskell, the wxc components were built as a monolithic static library with wxcore.
  • wxcore is a set of low-level Haskell bindings to wxc. A large part is generated automatically by wxdirect, with some key abstractions being hand-coded in Haskell. You can program directly to the wxcore interface if you wish (it is sometimes the only way, in fact).
  • wx is a set of higher-level wrappers over wxcore. It is intended to make it easier to write reasonably idiomatic Haskell. Most wxHaskell software is about 80% wx and 20% wxcore.

The C wrapper is, unfortunately, generated by hand, so there is some (mainly tedious boilerplate) work involved in porting a new set of widgets to wxHaskell. Some work has been done into automating this aspect, but we are far from being able to replicate the approach reliably over then entire API as yet.

From the perspective of the user (rather than the developer) about 90% of the core wxWidgets functionality is already supported, excluding more "exotic" widgets like dockable windows. The library supports Windows, GTK (Linux) and macOS X.

News

28 April 2017
wxHaskell 0.92.3 is released.
30 December 2015
wxInstall Achelanne 0.1 and wxHaskell 0.92.2 are released.
9 October 2015
wxInstall Abriline packages and wxHaskell 0.92.1 are released.
27 August 2015
wxHaskell 0.92.0 is released.
12 August 2014
wxHaskell 0.91.0 is released. This version accepts wxWidgets 2.9 and 3.0.
21 March 2014
wxHaskell 0.90.1 is released.

See also Old wxHaskell news

Documentation

Resources

External links

Advanced Functional Programming, by Koen Lindström Claessen and Björn Bringert, a portal like page (html)

See also

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