On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 18:52:18 UTC, I Lindström wrote:
On Tuesday, 30 January 2018 at 12:30:36 UTC, rjframe wrote:
VS release builds compile to native now by default; for easy
Windows programming, you really can't beat C# and drawing the
GUI (Windows Forms, not necessarily the new stuff). If the OP
wants to learn what's needed for more complex GUI tasks (like
for most non-simple applications), learning to build a GUI
from source is kind of necessary though.
I've been looking into C# and VS2017 today along with VisualD.
Reading through all this it looks like the simplest path is to
learn C# and VS and go from there. I've found a pile of courses
on LinkedIn that seem to build up to what I need. What makes me
sad is that I have to drop D for at least the time being.
As other have said, WPF and C# is the way to go for Windows GUI
programming, but you don't necessarily need to drop D. You could
write your interface code in VS and have it call your D library
via pinvoke (Platform Invoke). To make this work you must mark
your public D functions with extern(C). Read the documentation on
extern(C) and PInvoke.
Honestly, I don't know why more people don't do this. It really
seems to be like the best of both worlds, as C# + WPF is king for
Windows GUI and D is king for library development. The only
drawback I can think of is you have to expose your awesome D
library via a dumped down C interface.
