Gtk2Hs

The new release finishes many features that were in the works. Novelties include:

• support for GHC 6.10
• new bindings to GIO and GtkSourceView 2.0
• full switch to the new model-view implementation using Haskell models for storage
• support for many more model-based widgets such as IconView and an updated binding to ComboBox
• full drag-and-drop support
• better support for Attributes in Pango
• replaced Event for EventM monad, thereby improving efficiency and convenience
• functions for interaction between Cairo and Pixbuf (i.e. it is possible to mix vector graphics and pixel-based image manipulation routines)
• lots of bug fixes, code cleanups, and portability improvements

With this release, the bindings to GnomeVFS and GtkSourceView-1.0 have been deprecated. The TreeList modules have been deprecated from the Gtk+ bindings.

Source and Win32 binaries are available on the Sourceforge page

Thanks to everyone who submitted bug fixes and features this time around!

Gtk2Hs version 0.9.13 is now available.

New features:

• bindings for Gnome VFS and GStreamer
• a new Gtk+ tutorial has been adapted by Hans van Thiel
• cairo image stride support
• many new demos
• compiles with GHC 6.8.3
• lots of bug fixes

This release has been tested on a variety of platforms with different versions of Gtk+ and GHC, so you should have no trouble compiling it if you’re using an older version of Gtk+.

Note that the binaries for Win32 for this release are only provided for GHC 6.8.3 and Gtk+ 2.12.  As with older releases, all the C libraries needed are included in the installer, so you don’t need to download anything else to get up an running.  I’ve also created zip files containing only the C libraries that can be used for redistribution.  The sources for these binaries are available here.

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 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)