wizards: High level, generic library for interrogative user interfaces

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wizards is a package designed for the quick and painless development of interrogative programs, which revolve around a "dialogue" with the user, who is asked a series of questions in a sequence much like an installation wizard.

Everything from interactive system scripts, to installation wizards, to full-blown shells can be implemented with the support of wizards.

It is developed transparently on top of a free monad, which separates out the semantics of the program from any particular interface. A variety of backends exist, including console-based System.Console.Wizard.Haskeline and System.Console.Wizard.BasicIO, and the pure System.Console.Wizard.Pure. It is also possible to write your own backends, or extend existing back-ends with new features. While both built-in IO backends operate on a console, there is no reason why wizards cannot also be used for making GUI wizard interfaces.

See the github page for examples on usage:

http://www.github.com/liamoc/wizards

For creating backends, the module System.Console.Wizard.Internal has a brief tutorial.

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Versions [RSS] 0.1, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3
Dependencies base (>=4 && <5), containers (>=0.4 && <0.5), control-monad-free (>=0.5 && <0.6), haskeline (>=0.6 && <0.7), mtl (>=2.0 && <2.1), transformers (>=0.2 && <0.3) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Author Liam O'Connor-Davis
Maintainer liamoc@cse.unsw.edu.au
Category User Interfaces
Source repo head: git clone git://github.com/liamoc/wizards.git
this: git clone git://github.com/liamoc/wizards.git(tag 1.0)
Uploaded by LiamOConnorDavis at 2012-06-30T20:02:24Z
Distributions Arch:1.0.3, Debian:1.0.3, Fedora:1.0.3, LTSHaskell:1.0.3, NixOS:1.0.3, Stackage:1.0.3, openSUSE:1.0.3
Reverse Dependencies 2 direct, 3 indirect [details]
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