Nested Lambdas in wxHaskell Library

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Published on 2012-11-17T22:28:01Z Indexed on 2012/11/17 23:01 UTC
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I've been trying to figure out how I can make staticText elements resize to fit their contents with wxHaskell. From what I can tell, this is the default behavior in wxWidgets, but the wxHaskell wrapper specifically disables this behavior. However, the library code that creates new elements has me very confused. Can anyone provide an explanation for what this code does?

staticText :: Window a -> [Prop (StaticText ())] -> IO (StaticText ())
staticText parent props
  = feed2 props 0 $
    initialWindow $ \id rect ->
    initialText   $ \txt -> \props flags ->
    do t <- staticTextCreate parent id txt rect flags {- (wxALIGN_LEFT + wxST_NO_AUTORESIZE) -}
       set t props
       return t

I know that feed2 x y f = f x y, and that the type signature of initialWindow is

initialWindow :: (Id -> Rect -> [Prop (Window w)] -> Style -> a) -> [Prop (Window w)] -> Style -> a

and the signature of initialText is

initialText :: Textual w => (String -> [Prop w] -> a) -> [Prop w] -> a

but I just can't wrap my head around all the lambdas.

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