minwin

[Bill Baxter]

Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
> Hi folks.
> Just want to tell people that I have uploaded a zip with a MinWin that 
> builds on DMD 0.175.
> 
> Check it at:
> http://wiki.dprogramming.com/MinWin/HomePage
> 
> it only really took fixing the private/public import changes but it was 
> boring and I figure someone else might like to avoid it...
> 
> - lindquist

That's pretty nice.  Like wxWidgets-lite in D.

I see there's some talk on the forum about putting this into SVN 
somewhere.  Why not DSource?

Also, I can't get the sample.exe to do anything.  All the other samples 
work fine, though.  It seems if I comment out the 'new Button' lines it 
works.

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I'll just put in a plug for what I'd like to see in such a library: it 
should be possible to use the standard dialogs (like message box, file 
dialog, etc) without having to buy into the rest of the app framework 
stuff.

Right now it seems it's not possible in MinWin because it insists on you 
using its MinWinMain.  However, I tried adding a simple 
'version(NOMAIN)' in the Windows part of app.d, to enable opting out of 
that.  Then this no-gui program is able to open dialogs using MinWin's 
wrappers:

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import minwin.dialog;
import minwin.window;
import std.string;
import std.stdio;

class NullWin : AbstractWindow
{
     WindowPeer peer = null;
}

void main()
{
     scope win = new NullWin;

     FileDialogData data;
     data.title = "Open File";
     if (openFileDialog(win,data)) {
         char[] text = "you selected " ~ data.result;
         informationDialog(win, "Hello, world!\n"~text, "Greeting");
     }
}
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This would be nice because it would, for instance, give OpenGL GUIs 
(like say Luigi[1] ;-)) an easy way to invoke native dialogs without 
having to switch whole hog from a simple GL-oriented toolkit like GLD or 
SDL to something else less GL-friendly.

[1] http://www.dsource.com/projects/luigi

--bb