DWT in Google Summer of Code?

2012-03-03 Thread Mr. Anonymous
Hello, How about improving DWT as part of Google Summer of Code? I thing a stable GUI library is very important for D. What do you think?

Re: DWT in Google Summer of Code?

2012-03-03 Thread Sandeep Datta
I thing a stable GUI library is very important for D. +1 to that. But I think using using SWT as inspiration for a GUI library may not be the best possible choice. I would like to see an API which uses D well. Small things like using properties instead of getters and setters come to the mind

Re: DWT in Google Summer of Code?

2012-03-04 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-03-03 20:54, Mr. Anonymous wrote: Hello, How about improving DWT as part of Google Summer of Code? I thing a stable GUI library is very important for D. What do you think? I think it's a great idea. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: DWT in Google Summer of Code?

2012-03-04 Thread Mr. Anonymous
On Sunday, 4 March 2012 at 16:31:35 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2012-03-03 20:54, Mr. Anonymous wrote: Hello, How about improving DWT as part of Google Summer of Code? I thing a stable GUI library is very important for D. What do you think? I think it's a great idea. For beginning, you m

Re: DWT in Google Summer of Code?

2012-03-05 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-03-04 21:46, Mr. Anonymous wrote: On Sunday, 4 March 2012 at 16:31:35 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2012-03-03 20:54, Mr. Anonymous wrote: Hello, How about improving DWT as part of Google Summer of Code? I thing a stable GUI library is very important for D. What do you think? I thin

Re: DWT in Google Summer of Code?

2012-03-05 Thread Mr. Anonymous
On Monday, 5 March 2012 at 09:33:53 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2012-03-04 21:46, Mr. Anonymous wrote: On Sunday, 4 March 2012 at 16:31:35 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2012-03-03 20:54, Mr. Anonymous wrote: Hello, How about improving DWT as part of Google Summer of Code? I thing a stable G

Re: DWT in Google Summer of Code?

2012-03-07 Thread Jesse Phillips
On Saturday, 3 March 2012 at 21:12:19 UTC, Sandeep Datta wrote: I thing a stable GUI library is very important for D. +1 to that. But I think using using SWT as inspiration for a GUI library may not be the best possible choice. I would like to see an API which uses D well. Small things like u

Re: DWT in Google Summer of Code?

2012-03-16 Thread Tim Keating
On Wednesday, 7 March 2012 at 17:13:02 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote: As for SWT, I don't know what you mean by short comings. All GUI toolkits have them, but maybe you mean the API is not D like. At a cursory glance? The fact that there are numerous library classes for interfacing with files, etc

Re: DWT in Google Summer of Code?

2012-03-17 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-03-16 21:24, Tim Keating wrote: At a cursory glance? The fact that there are numerous library classes for interfacing with files, etc. (in base) that duplicate functionality that is in both Phobos & Tango, instead of modifying the libraries to rely on Phobos or Tango. The fact that the p

Re: DWT in Google Summer of Code?

2012-03-30 Thread a
On Friday, 16 March 2012 at 20:24:52 UTC, Tim Keating wrote: On Wednesday, 7 March 2012 at 17:13:02 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote: As for SWT, I don't know what you mean by short comings. All GUI toolkits have them, but maybe you mean the API is not D like. At a cursory glance? The fact that ther

Re: DWT in Google Summer of Code?

2012-03-31 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2012-03-30 17:51, a wrote: The examples also all use the horrible anonymous class thing. A GUI library really should use delegates for callbacks. You can use delegates as well. -- /Jacob Carlborg