phooey-0.2.1: README

Phooey is a library for functional user intefaces.  It's currently built
on wxHaskell, but could probably be tweaked to run on top of other
imperative UI libraries.  For a fuller description and link to
documentation, please see the Haskell wiki page:

  http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/phooey

You can configure, build, and install all in the usual way with Cabal
commands.

  runhaskell Setup.lhs configure
  runhaskell Setup.lhs build
  runhaskell Setup.lhs install

See src/Examples.hs for examples.

The dependencies are recorded in phooey.cabal.  Besides base, you'll need
"mtl", "arrows" and the wxHaskell packages "wx" and "wxcore".  I've tested
Phooey with wxHaskell built on wxWidgets-2.4.2 and on wxWidgets-2.6.3.
Both work, but wxWidgets-2.4.2 is much friendlier with ghci, as it lets
you run more than one wxHaskell app (Phooey app) per ghci session.  With
wxWidgets-2.6.3, the ghci process will crash if you try to run two GUIs.
(True also for ghc-compiled code, but rarely problematic.)  Since there is
no known fix for for this crashing problem, I recommend wxWidgets-2.4.2.

If you find that Phooey doesn't work with some version of base, mtl,
arrows, wx, or wxcore, please let me know, and I'll update phooey.cabal
accordingly.