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March 23, 2008: wxHaskell 0.10.3 is released. -
January 20, 2007: wxHaskell has a new set of maintainers, led by Jeremy O'Donoghue. We are working on a release for version 0.10, with Unicode 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). -
June 4, 2005: Lucas Torreão, Emanoel Barreiros, Hilda Borborema, and Keldjan Alves have written a reversi game with wxHaskell. See the screenshots. -
May 8, 2005: A bug-fix update of version 0.9.4 is released. This update enables wxHaskell with the GHCi 6.4 interpreter on Windows platforms. -
May 7 2004: wxWidgets news: The wxWidgets library (as well as wxPython and wxPerl) is being bundled as part of recently released Mac OS X Tiger operating system. Furthermore, there are three interesting new wxWidgets products: Bitwise IM is a cross-platform encrypted instant messenger application. Kynosoft recently released magic splitter, a file splitter and checksum utility. Finally, Lit Window Productions released wxVisualSetup 2.6 which integrates wxWidgets into the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET IDE. -
May 3, 2005: Version 0.9.4 is released. It comes with installers for -Fedora (Linux), Windows, and MacOSX. This is mostly an update to support the latest GHC 6.4. -
Feb 25, 2005: Version 0.9 is released. It comes with installers for -Fedora (Linux), Windows, and MacOSX. There is now support for printing and configuration files. Furthermore, there is much improved process support. Read the release notes for a detailed account of all changes. -
Nov 5 2004: Sander Evers has released Functional Forms: a library for wxHaskell to easily create dialogs to display and edit corresponding Haskell values. See the screenshot. -
Sep 23 2004: The technology behind the winners: -Team Dunkosmiloolump has used -wxHaskell for their submission to the Seventh annual ICFP programming contest – and they won the contest! See the screenshot. -
Jul 27 2004: Version 0.8 is released. It comes with installers for -Fedora (Linux), Windows, and MacOSX. There have been many bug fixes and many internal changes: managed resources are supported and all object references are checked. The wxGrid control is added and many other controls have a simplified interface. This version contains changes that are not backwards compatible but most are very small. Read the release notes for a detailed account of all changes. -
Jul 26 2004: Many internal changes: support for managed resources like bitmaps and full NULL pointer -checking on object pointers. Also added enhanced grid control support with wxGrid events (screenshot). -
Jul 24 2004: wxWidgets news: Elementec Software has released a very good backup program written in wxWidgets, Backup&Compress. It works great on Windows systems. -
Jul 22 2004: Wei Tan has made a graphical heap profile viewer for GHC with wxHaskell, called HPView. See the screenshots. -
Jun 8 2004: Team Dunkosmiloolump has used -wxHaskell for their submission to the Seventh annual ICFP programming contest. See the screenshot. -
Jun 4 2004: We are working towards version 0.8. This will support the new wxWidgets 2.5.2, and have many -improvements, like variable objects, NULL pointer checking and managed resources like bitmaps. -
May 10 2004: Support for radio menu items and file types in file save dialogs. -
Apr 2 2004: Version 0.7 is released. It comes with installers for -Fedora (Linux), Windows, and MacOSX. There have been some bug fixes, and more attributes are added to -influence style settings of windows. The build system has also improved, especially for Linux systems. -
Apr 2 2004: Eric Y. Kow has created a Wiki site for wxHaskell! -You are invited to add useful tips, screenshots, or example programs. -
Apr 2 2004: Sean Seefried has provided a screenshot that -demonstrates the wxHaskell OpenGL -canvas using the HOpenGL binding -by Sven Panne. -
Mar 24 2004: Updated screenshots and added screenshots of wxHaskell applications. -wxHaskell also builds properly now with wxWidgets 2.5.1 and can link statically with the wxWidgets libraries. -Menu bugs on MacOS X have been fixed. -
Feb 29 2004: The windows installer of wxHaskell 0.6 has been updated to better support -windows98 and windows95 platforms. -
Feb 23 2004: Version 0.6 is released. This version fixes many outstanding -bugs, has basic support for MDI applications, and compiles with the latest CVS snapshots of wxWidgets. -
Feb 20 2004: wxWidgets news: wxWindows changes its name into wxWidgets! Microsoft has requested this change and, -in exchange, provides modest financial support for further development of wxWidgets -(read more). -
Feb 20 2004: wxHaskell is compiled with the latests CVS snapshot of wxWidgets on MacOS X 10.3 (Panther) with GHC 6.2. -The snapshot still contains menu bugs on the Mac though. Also added a convenient installer for the -readline library to make the build process on the Mac relatively painless. -
Feb 20 2004: Finally! the resize bugs have been found and fixed. Furthermore, support for MDI windows is added. We are -working towards a 0.6 release in the next week. -
Feb 19 2004: A patch to the windows installer of version 0.5 is released (named ...-0.5-1). -
Feb 14 2004: Version 0.5 is released. This is basically a patch-level -release for GHC 6.2. Also added support for html window events. Unfortunately, there are still some resize bugs. -
Dec 22 2003: wxWidgets news: wxWidgets on mobile phones! (using the Borland C++ builder Nokia edition on series 60 phones with the Symbian OS). -
Dec 19 2003: wxWidgets news: wxWidgets get its own software foundation to promote and protect wxWidgets' interest. The foundation is chaired by Mitch Kapor, now leading the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) (which is using wxWidgets for their Chandler product). -
Dec 18 2003: wxWidgets news: The new Borland Builder-X development environment for C++ will ship with wxWidgets as its windowing toolkit. Read the official wxWidgets statement, and take a look at a screenshot from the pre-evaluation version. -
Nov 7 2003: Version 0.4 is released. Most important addition is extensive ODBC database support (not yet on MacOS X) and improved installation on windows. Resize issues have been fixed. -
Oct 30 2003: Extensive support for portable ODBC database access has been added. -Includes functionality to retrieve full meta information about databases and result sets. -At the moment only tested on Windows with MS SQL Server and MS Access, and unsupported on MacOS X.
Oct 25 2003: Support for the openGL canvas has been added, and we are looking for volunteers -to test it with HOpenGL. At the moment unsupported on MacOS X.
Oct 9 2003: Haskell on the cover of magazine! wxHaskell is featured in the october 2003 edition of L'informaticien – a popular French PC magazine. The article has been written by Frédéric Mazué. I have added -some screenshots of the relevant pages. -
Oct 1 2003: Version 0.3 is released. This is a patch-level release against the new wxWidgets 2.4.2 -library. Behaviour is especially improved on MacOS X. Also contains new functionality to manipulate pixel buffers -directly. -
Sep 26 2003: Jens petersen kindly provided a rpm for Red Hat Linux. -
Sep 16 2003: Version 0.2 is released! The new release has (improved) support for tree controls, list -controls, toolbars, splitter windows, sliders, gauges, and bitmap -buttons. Screenshots of these widgets on different platforms have been -added to the website. Furthermore, there are numerous small bug fixes, -especially for wxGTK. -
Sep 15 2003: Fixed numerous small bugs after extensive testing on GTK and MacOS X. Issues on GTK: tree control has the wrong size (looks bulky), unable to run main twice from ghci. -
Sep 11 2003: Improved support for toolbars, sliders, and gauge controls. -
Sep 10 2003: Improved support for tree controls, list controls, image lists, and splitter windows (i.e. sash bars). See the screenshots. -
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Aug 22 2003: wxWidgets news: AOL has released AOL Communicator, built with a modified version of wxWidgets. An article about AOL Communicator can be found on Quote.com. -
Aug 21 2003: wxHaskell has been build with GHC version 6.0.1. (GHC versions 6.0, 5.04.3, and interim 5.05 were -already supported). -
Aug 19 2003: Sweeping changes: renamed the library WXH to the more appropiate -name WXCore. Also fixed type signatures in the marshalling of tree controls, list controls, toolbars and splitter windows. -
Aug 18 2003: Arthur Baars has provided a proper -installer for MacOS X now. -
July 22 2003: There is a binary release for MacOS X now. Furthermore, the source release (version 0.1) has been -updated with a small bug fix in the configure script that caused build problems on Linux systems. -
July 21 2003: We are proud to announce the first public release of wxHaskell 0.1! There is even a binary distribution -for Windows. -
July 18 2003: Added two more screenshots: Proxima (by Martijn Schrage) and Tha-Simulator (by Wijnand Suijlen). -
July 14 2003: Close to the first release, we have updated the build system: all projects are now -build with a single makefile and configure script, and distributions are automatically generated. -The new development tree is in the wxhaskell directory: the other directories are -now considered obsolete (wxc, wxdirect, wxh, and wx). -
July 9 2003: wxHaskell now runs properly on MacOS X!. It still contains some small -redraw problems with resizeable dialogs but all the samples work ok. -
July 9 2003: The wxc library compiles now with Microsoft Visual C++ on windows platforms. The -resulting dynamic link library is just 600kb (while the gnu compiled libraries are 2mb). -
July 3 2003: The wx library is available through sourceforge now. -
July 2 2003: A major revision of the wxHaskell library has been committed – all the this pointers -are now passed as the first argument instead of the last. -
July 1 2003: wxHaskell has been used in the ICFP contest -by Team Dom -to create a graphical editor for solving the tracks. There is a nice -screenshot of the editor running on GTK/Linux. -
June 4 2003: Arthur Baars has kindly provided his Linux machine and his time!, to build wxHaskell successfully on MacOSX (see the screenshots). Unfortunately, drawing device contexts -do not work at this moment. -
June 3 2003: We started working on make files for mingw32 (win32), unix, and MacOSX. Alpha release scheduled for the first week of July. -
Apr 22 2003: Andres Löh has kindly provided his Linux machine (and his time :-), to build wxHaskell successfully with GTK. Screenshots have been added. We have some small problems with mouse motion events on GTK though (May 20 2003 update: the problems are gone with the -latest (cvs) GHC version). -
Feb 18 2003: Preliminary documentation on the wx library added. -
Feb 1 2003: Put the wxHaskell project on sourceforge. -

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