Bruno Medeiros writes:
> Using old communication software like NNTP is one example of that.
> Compare with Rust's Discourse.
Having ability to use nntp reader (Gnus) which I use for all my mailing
lists (via Gmane) is big 'pro' to choose, among many other things, D
over Rust.
NNTP provides auto
Vadim Lopatin writes:
> Most wanted feature for OSX is not a look & feel, but support of native OSX
> menu.
That's really strange for me, but, otoh, I'm aware that "De gustibus non
est disputandum" :-)
> Not sure if it's easy to use OSX system theme resources in DlangUI.
OK.
Sincerely,
Gour
Gary Willoughby writes:
> Tkd is truly cross-platform (Linux, Mac and Windows), very simple to
> understand and 'just works' with very little effort but it's not very
> modern.
When you say 'modern' do you consider lack of some 'modern' widget or
just general look (although I read that it improv
Jacob Carlborg writes:
> Not sure what you're referring to. The "Services" menu?
Probably...although my experience with Mac OS is very limited...
Sincerely,
Gour
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Jacob Carlborg writes:
> I don't agree. I want everything to look native, not just the menu ;)
Considering that I'm on Linux, I'm happy there is no such thing as
'native', but there is choice, although in my case it's GNOME/GTK. ;)
Sincerely,
Gour
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Vadim Lopatin writes:
> Some of such widgets are easy to implement.
> Switch - just need to add new style for button to theme.
You already did it, right?
> Switch, Stack, Notebook, HeaderBar - new styles for TabHeader,
> TabHost, TabWidget Can be implemented in one day.
It sounds good. ;)
> S
Gary Willoughby writes:
> Sometimes the widgets don't look 100% native. You can take a look at
> the example if you want.
I did and it must say it looks pretty good. ;)
At the end, the look is not all in all...how is tkd in regard to memory
management etc.?
Sincerely,
Gour
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Karabuta writes:
> I run on Linux so i would sadly go for Gtk :( whilst keeping an eye on
> DlangUI
Do you have any opinion for DWT (https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/dwt
which *might* be a nice one?
Sincerely,
Gour
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thedeemon writes:
> It is quite "D-ish", using the power of D metaprogramming and D syntax
> quite effectively in some places.
That's nice.
> One big 'pro' of dlangui for me is that you can get a self-contained
> 1-2 MB binary without dependencies on any DLLs. Small to download,
> easy to run,
Jaocb Carlborg writes:
> No, DWT does _not_ work on OS X, neither native nor non-native. I'm
> working on the OS X port indirectly. The automated process should work
> for all ports.
OK, the main thing for now it would be that it works on Linux...but I
have some problems - see DWT group.
> Anot
Jordi Sayol via Digitalmars-d writes:
> TkD works on Linux.
Have you used it and/or what would be some prp/cons vs GtkD?
Sincerely,
Gour
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bearophile writes:
Hello bearophile,
and thank you very much for your insightful reply!
> But for an average multi-platform desktop application Ada is not a
> good idea. The main problem is not the language itself (that is very
> verbose, but that's not a show-stopper), but the tooling (very s
Luis writes:
> A bit offtopic, but I think that we need is our D-ish wxWidgets
> equivalent. In other words, a GUI that uses native widgets across
> plataforms and all the power of D.
Well, I see that wxWidgets is mature product and is heavily struggling
with manpower to maintain and further dev
Jacob Carlborg writes:
> Well, currently there is no support for OS X so if that's a
> requirement then DWT will obviously not work.
Well, OS X and Windows are 'nice to have'.
> Personally I would not create an application for OS X at all if it did
> not have a native GUI.
It would be nice to
Jaocb Carlborg writes:
> There's DWT [1] as well.
Wrong URL. ;)
I know about DWT, but when I was considering D in the past, DWT was not
actively developed and was, iirc, in kind of maint. mode only.
> Which uses native drawing operations and are completely written in D.
That's nice.
> Althou
Gerald writes:
> I've never tried it, however having been down this road before (i.e.
> non-native widgets) with Java Swing I have no great desire to try
> something in a similar vein, so that ruled it out for me.
I know that there is/was DWT, but I was also not excited with it when
considering
FreeSlave writes:
> GTK-D is ok if you're ok with gtk on Windows and OSX.
Well, considering there are not many other options like wx/Qt which
seems to big, I can probably live with it being aware that GTK is
thrilling neither on Mac nor on Windows, but there are some apps Pro
apps like Ardour us
Chris Wright writes:
> I'm guessing dlangui will be best here, but GtkD is pretty good.
What might be some 'pro' of dlangui?
> You might be able to use model-view-presenter and keep the model and
> presenter @safe and the view @trusted, but @safe has poor adoption so
> far.
I recall reading so
WebFreak001 writes:
> I never tried tkd though. But in my opinion GtkD is currently the best
> one and the API is just awesome
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Gour
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Hello,
After long pause and trying some other languages, I've decided to try
(again) with D for writing open-source multi-platform desktop (GUI)
application.
I've selected three different libraries:
a) dlangui (https://github.com/buggins/dlangui
b) GtkD (https://github.com/gtkd-developers/GtkD
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