On 2015-01-27 23:04, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
I have dream! A dream, dream dream. A dream to see GUI's easy to use in D! I must admit it will be hard, but it's time. Prime time I mean!
Oh, it's time for GUI season again :).
Now enough gabble. I'm proposing to get Devisualization.Window PR'd into phobos.
What exactly are you proposing, just to be able to get a window or a full GUI library? Will this include some event handler/event processing as well?
This cannot happen right now. It's blocked on many fronts. 1) Objective-C bridge. The most obvious one for OSX
A bridge is a bad idea. D needs first class support for Objective-C, i.e. extern (Objective-C). But perhaps that's what you're referring to?
6) Cocoa bindings (easy not an issue, just dependent on the bridge)
It depends on what you need. It's not really hard, just tedious and time consuming. If you don't need a full set of Cocoa bindings it's hopefully not a problem.
BTW, DStep can generate bindings for Objective-C code.
Jacob Carlborg, how far off is the objective-c bridge?
If you refer to extern (Objective-C) I'm redoing it for the third time, now splitting it up in multiple pull requests. The first pull request has been created [1], although it hasn't received much review yet, at least not from any core developers (that I know of).
Has any definitions to e.g. Cocoa been started either?
Maybe. There's someone in the forums that has started to use D/Objective-C. He has created bindings [2] for AppKit, Foundation and WebKit. I have no idea about the quality of the bindings and how complete they are.
I also have a lot of bindings [3] for my old Objective-C bridge. It should be possible to do some regular expression search-and-replace to adapt them to D/Objective-C, if desired.
As said above, DStep can generate bindings for Objective-C. [1] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4321 [2] https://github.com/DiveFramework/DiveFramework/tree/master/Interfaces [3] http://dsource.org/projects/dstep/browser/dstep -- /Jacob Carlborg
