On 10/20/2013 02:15 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Sunday, 20 October 2013 at 17:24:30 UTC, John Joyus wrote:
Regarding the GUI part, all I really need is a form and a bunch of
buttons. Can I do that through pure Windows API in D to create a small
stand-alone executable that does everything by itself?
yup. I started a thing to do it, but haven't finished it yet
https://github.com/adamdruppe/misc-stuff-including-D-programming-language-web-stuff
Grab the files simpledisplay.d, color,d and minigui.d. Lots of stuff
doesn't work, and the stuff that does work is still subject to change...
but if all ou need are the basics, it might be good enough as it is.
Then compile:
dmd yourapp.d simpledisplay.d color.d minigui.d
and it should just work. If you avoid phobos throughout your code, you
can get stand-alone executables about 230 KB in size. With phobos,
you'll probably add 200-700 KB, depending on how much you use.
Add " -L/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS:5.0" (no quotes) to the command line if you
don't want a console window to pop up. If you use a resource and xml
manifest, this supports visual theme styles on XP+ too. (search MSDN if
you want to learn more)
(btw there's also database.d and mssql.d in there that might interest
you. mssql.d uses ODBC, but the truth is I've never actually tested it,
so I don't know if it even compiles.)
This is cool! I am able to compile your example. It creates a small 225
KB executable!
Btw, I had to comment out the lines that contain TextLabel and the
.content in the example code as it fails to compile with following errors:
- undefiend identifier TextLabel
- no property 'content' for type 'arsd.minigui.LineEdit'
I have not tried the database.d and mssql.d files yet.
Thanks.
