Reactive table with reactive banana and gtk2hs - haskell

Question

I have written a small application which tracks my progress in TV Series. The application is written in Haskell with functional reactive programming (FRP) with reactive banana.
The application can:
add/remove new TV Series to the table
change the season and episode of an series
I have problems writing the code that adds a new TV series to the table and wires the new events. The CRUD example from here didn't quite help me because I have more requirements then just selecting an element from the list.
How do I write a reactiveTable function like the reactiveListDisplay function from the CRUD Example in a FRP way? How can events be added for the remove button and the season and episode spin buttons after the network has been compiled?
data Series = Series { name :: String
, season :: Int
, episode :: Int
}
insertIntoTable :: TableClass t => t -> SeriesChangeHandler -> SeriesRemoveHandler -> Series -> IO ()
insertIntoTable table changeHandler removeHandler (Series name s e) = do
(rows, cols) <- tableGetSize table
tableResize table (rows+1) cols
nameLabel <- labelNew $ Just name
adjustmentS <- adjustmentNew (fromIntegral s) 1 1000 1 0 0
adjustmentE <- adjustmentNew (fromIntegral e) 1 1000 1 0 0
seasonButton <- spinButtonNew adjustmentS 1.0 0
episodeButton <- spinButtonNew adjustmentE 1.0 0
removeButton <- buttonNewWithLabel "remove"
let getSeries = do
s <- spinButtonGetValue seasonButton
e <- spinButtonGetValue episodeButton
return $ Series name (round s) (round e)
handleSeries onEvent widget handler = do
onEvent widget $ do
series <- getSeries
handler series
handleSeries onValueSpinned seasonButton changeHandler
handleSeries onValueSpinned episodeButton changeHandler
onPressed removeButton $ do
series <- getSeries
containerRemove table nameLabel
containerRemove table seasonButton
containerRemove table episodeButton
containerRemove table removeButton
removeHandler series
let tadd widget x = tableAdd table widget x (rows - 1)
tadd nameLabel 0
tadd seasonButton 1
tadd episodeButton 2
tadd removeButton 3
widgetShowAll table
main :: IO ()
main = do
initGUI
window <- windowNew
scroll <- scrolledWindowNew Nothing Nothing
table <- tableNew 1 5 True
addButton <- buttonNewWithLabel "add series"
vbox <- vBoxNew False 10
containerAdd window vbox
boxPackStart vbox addButton PackNatural 0
let networkDescription :: forall t. Frameworks t => Moment t ()
networkDescription = do
addEvent <- eventButton addButton
(changeHandler,fireChange) <- liftIO $ newAddHandler
changeEvent <- fromAddHandler changeHandler
(removeHandler,fireRemove) <- liftIO $ newAddHandler
removeEvent <- fromAddHandler removeHandler
let insertIntoTable' = insertIntoTable table fireChange fireRemove
addSeries e = do
s <- addSeriesDialog
liftIO $ insertIntoTable' s
liftIO $ mapM_ insertIntoTable' initSeries
reactimate $ addSeries <$> addEvent
reactimate $ updateSeries conn <$> changeEvent
reactimate $ removeSeries conn <$> removeEvent
network <- compile networkDescription
actuate network
onDestroy window $ do
D.disconnect conn
mainQuit
widgetShowAll window
mainGUI
I want to refactor the insertIntoTable method to use events and behaviors rather than using simple callbacks.
EDIT:
I have tried the gtk TreeView with a ListStore backend. In this scenario you don't need dynamic event switching. I have written the reactiveList function below to get a list behavior out of insert, change and remove events. It works ^^
reactiveList :: (Frameworks t)
=> ListStore a
-> Event t (Int,a) -- insert event
-> Event t (Int,a) -- change event
-> Event t (Int,a) -- remove event
-> Moment t (Behavior t [a])
reactiveList store insertE changeE removeE = do
(listHandler,fireList) <- liftIO $ newAddHandler
let onChange f (i,a) = do
f i a
list <- listStoreToList store
fireList list
reactimate $ onChange (listStoreInsert store) <$> insertE
reactimate $ onChange (listStoreSetValue store) <$> changeE
reactimate $ onChange (const . listStoreRemove store) <$> removeE
initList <- liftIO $ listStoreToList store
fromChanges initList listHandler
main :: IO ()
main = do
initGUI
window <- windowNew
addButton <- buttonNewWithLabel "add series"
vbox <- vBoxNew False 10
seriesList <- listStoreNew (initSeries :: [Series])
listView <- treeViewNewWithModel seriesList
treeViewSetHeadersVisible listView True
let newCol title newRenderer f = do
col <- treeViewColumnNew
treeViewColumnSetTitle col title
renderer <- newRenderer
cellLayoutPackStart col renderer False
cellLayoutSetAttributes col renderer seriesList f
treeViewAppendColumn listView col
return renderer
newCol "Image" cellRendererPixbufNew $ \s -> [cellPixbuf :=> newPixbuf s]
newCol "Name" cellRendererTextNew $ \s -> [cellText := name s]
seasonSpin <- newCol "Season" cellRendererSpinNew $ \s ->
[ cellRendererSpinAdjustment :=> adjustmentNew (fromIntegral (season s)) 1 1000 1 0 0
, cellText := (show $ season s)
, cellTextEditable := True
]
episodeSpin <- newCol "Episode" cellRendererSpinNew $ \s ->
[ cellRendererSpinAdjustment :=> adjustmentNew (fromIntegral (episode s)) 1 1000 1 0 0
, cellText := (show $ episode s)
, cellTextEditable := True
]
containerAdd window vbox
boxPackStart vbox listView PackGrow 0
boxPackStart vbox addButton PackNatural 0
let networkDescription :: forall t. Frameworks t => Moment t ()
networkDescription = do
(addHandler,fireAdd) <- liftIO $ newAddHandler
maybeSeriesE <- fromAddHandler addHandler
(removeHandler,fireRemove) <- liftIO $ newAddHandler
removeE <- fromAddHandler removeHandler
-- when the add button was pressed,
-- open a dialog and return maybe a new series
askSeriesE <- eventButton addButton
reactimate $ (const $ fireAdd =<< askSeries) <$> askSeriesE
-- ommit all nothing series
let insertE = filterJust maybeSeriesE
insert0E = ((,) 0) <$> insertE
seasonSpinE <- eventSpin seasonSpin seriesList
episodeSpinE <- eventSpin episodeSpin seriesList
let changeSeason (i,d,s) = (i,s {season = round d})
changeEpisode (i,d,s) = (i,s {episode = round d})
let changeE = (changeSeason <$> seasonSpinE) `union` (changeEpisode <$> episodeSpinE)
listB <- reactiveList seriesList insert0E changeE removeE
listE <- (changes listB)
reactimate $ (putStrLn . unlines . map show) <$> listE
reactimate $ insertSeries conn <$> insertE
reactimate $ updateSeries conn . snd <$> changeE
reactimate $ removeSeries conn . snd <$> removeE
return ()
network <- compile networkDescription
actuate network
onDestroy window $ do
D.disconnect conn
mainQuit
widgetShowAll window
mainGUI
I'm open for comments and suggestions.

Answer 1

It sounds like your problem is much closer to the Bar Tab example than the CRUD one.
The basic idea for adding new widgets--along with new behaviors and events--is to use so-called "dynamic event switching". Essentially, this is a way to put newly created events and behaviors back into your network.
The action to create a new widget has two parts. The first part is to just create the widget, using liftIO. The second is to get its inputs and use trimE or trimB as appropriate. Leaving out most of the GTk-specific details (I don't know how to use GTk :P), it'll look something like this:
let newSeries name = do
label <- liftIO . labelNew $ Just name
liftIO $ tadd labelNew 0
{- ... the rest of your controls here ... -}
seasonNumber <- trimB $ getSpinButtonBehavior seasonButton
{- ... wrap the rest of the inputs using trimB and trimE ... -}
return (label, seasonNumber, ...)
So this function creates a new widget, "trims" its inputs and returns the values to you. Now you have to actually use these values:
newSeasons <- execute (FrameworkMoment newSeries <$> nameEvents)
here nameEvents should be an Event String containing an event with the name of the new series each time you want to add it.
Now that you have a stream of all of the new seasons, you can combine it all into a single behavior of a list of entries using something like stepper.
For more details--including things like getting the aggregate information out of all of your widgets--look at the actual example code.