A functional programming technique for forms in graphical user interfaces

Authors:
Sander Evers;Peter Achten;Jan Kuper
Affiliations:
Department of Software Technology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;Department of Software Technology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands;Department of Computer Science, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Venue:
IFL'04 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages
Year:
2004

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Abstract

This paper presents FunctionalForms, a combinator library for constructing fully functioning forms in a concise and flexible way. A form is a part of a graphical user interface (GUI) restricted to displaying a value and allowing the user to modify it. The library is built on top of the medium-level GUI library wxHaskell. To obtain complete separation between the structure of a form's layout and that of the edited values, we introduce a novel use of compositional functional references.