The wizards package
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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Properties
| Versions | 0.1, 1.0, 1.0.1 |
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| Dependencies | base (==4.*), containers (>=0.4 && <0.6), control-monad-free (==0.5.*), haskeline (>=0.6 && <0.8), mtl (>=2.0 && <2.2), transformers (>=0.1 && <0.4) |
| License | BSD3 |
| Author | Liam O'Connor-Davis |
| Maintainer | liamoc@cse.unsw.edu.au |
| Category | User Interfaces |
| Source repository | head: git clone git://github.com/liamoc/wizards.git this: git clone git://github.com/liamoc/wizards.git(tag 1.0) |
| Upload date | Sat Nov 3 07:13:11 UTC 2012 |
| Uploaded by | LiamOConnorDavis |
| Distributions | NixOS:1.0.1 |
| Downloads | 166 total (18 in last 30 days) |
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Downloads
- wizards-1.0.1.tar.gz [browse] (Cabal source package)
- Package description (included in the package)
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