On Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:48:44 -0800, Andrej Mitrovic
<andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 12/6/11, Jacob Carlborg <d...@me.com> wrote:
Doesn't sound very effective.
I don't know what that bubbling is all about. You can easily intercept
a signal to a child window via std.signals, in Qt this would be
installing an event filter of some sort. So sink/bubble seems
unnecessary.
The library is far from being efficient. It recreates a main window
memory buffer on each paint message from the OS (IOW very often), also
unless I'm mistaken the widgets themselves don't have a backbuffer so
the library assumes their paint routines are not expensive. But that's
fixable.
I don't know why HTML was used, although that's just an alternative
front-end to the library as far as I can tell. It does seem like this
library died pretty quickly, I don't recall of any projects that used
it.
Anyway, I don't know if Adam wants to work on a native or non-native
GUI, for native ones in pure-D (not a wrapper over existing GUIs) he
can look at DFL or something else from here:
http://prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?GuiLibraries
But the library is modular enough and could be used as a starting point,
imo.
The use of HTML is a bit contrived I think. HTML is a Document Markup
Language and was primarily intended to format research papers for
transmission and viewing over the early internet. To build a good UI, you
need a much more expressive design language.
My goal for the project is what you would term non-native in that it does
not make use of the OS widgets; however the plan is to provide native
looking skins for the widgets. I'd like to design something that
interfaces with the machine at a lower level than widgets. On Windows I am
targeting Direct2D, on Linux, OpenGL is the best candidate, and on OSX,
well OpenGL might work but OSX has a lot of options to explore, and I
don't have access to a Mac. (Anybody know how to get OSX working on
VirtualBox?)
That wiki link is fantastic, I had no idea there were that many GUI
projects going for D! Although it looks like the only ones that did what
I'd like to do are dead (Rae and Harmonia)... Guess it's time to give it
another shot.
--
Adam Wilson
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/
