On Tuesday, 21 May 2013 at 07:47:56 UTC, eles wrote:
On Tuesday, 21 May 2013 at 06:41:24 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2013-05-20 07:25, Tyler Jameson Little wrote:
Here we go again, yet another massive thread about GUI
toolkits :)
Anyway, the thread is already started, I think the alternatives
are:
1) pick up a major well-known GUI library, fork it and spend
some important time to re-write in D. Choices: Qt, GTK,
wxWindows etc.
2) pick up a lighter GUI library, while still cross-platform,
and re-write it in D. Spent time is less. Choices: FLTK, FOX
Toolkit
3) start from scratch and write something new, while still
having to decide if will wrap OS widgets or no.
Just to be sure that you know about FOX Toolkit:
http://fox-toolkit.org/goals.html
DWT is completely written in D. It is a port of a java library
which originally contained java + jni + C++ code, which were all
ported to D exclusively.
DWT interfaces directly with the OS in windows, and with GTK in
linux.
So there. A native D GUI library already exists (DWT), which can
work as a starting point for something else. Note that it is hard
to create a GUI designer directly for SWT (because it would need
to generate code), but a layer of declarative xml can be built on
top, so that it is easier.
Code originally written for SWT
http://www.eclipse.org/swt/widgets/ works with little
modification.
I've been using DWT for some time and it seems stable for me.
Thanks to Jacob Carlborg for maintaining it!
--jm
