Re: hoodle-core [PATCH] fix compilation with ghc-7.4

[Ian-Woo Kim]

Hi, Claude

Thank you very much for your contribution!!
I really appreciate it!
These days, I couldn't keep focusing on hxournal/hoodle project much
due to my other matters as I planned, but hopefully I can improve the
project better soon.

best,
IW





On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Claude Heiland-Allen
<cla...@mathr.co.uk> wrote:
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> Greetings,
>
> I recently got a graphics tablet, intending to use it with home made
> GTK/Haskell code (yet to be written!) - so I wanted to try hxournal to
> get a feel for things (and check how it all works).
>
> I found:
>
> 1. hxournal doesn't compile with ghc-7.4
> http://hpaste.org/71069
> 2. hxournal was renamed hoodle
> (name mentioned on mailing list, found code on github)
> 3. hoodle doesn't compile with ghc-7.4
> http://hpaste.org/71069#a71071
>
> I managed to hack the code a bit so that it compiled and seemed to
> work on my Debian Wheezy installation with ghc-7.4.2. Patches
> attached - I don't know if this is the best way to do it, but
> something in the GADTs system seems to have changed, if that code did
> work in ghc-7.0, but I'm a n00b at GADTs :) Screenshot with my really
> bad handwriting at:
>
> http://mathr.co.uk/superscript/2012-07-08_hoodle_with_tablet.png
>
> I used this as reference for preventing Xorg from considering the
> tablet as a mouse pointer:
>
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6806608.html#6806608
>
> Thanks for your hxournal`aka`hoodle project, while I probably won't
> use it as it was originally intended, hopefully I can learn much of
> what I need from the code in building my own project currently
> code-named "superscript", the idea is to do for handwritten text what
> my "graphgrow" project currently does for machine text in a bad font:
>
> https://gitorious.org/maximus/graphgrow
> http://archive.org/details/ClaudiusMaximus_-_Haskell_IRC_Fractal
>
> Thanks again,
>
>
> Claude
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