Code Poet with DWT ?

Jeremie Pelletier jeremiep at gmail.com
Mon Nov 30 20:47:57 PST 2009


Bill Baxter wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Jeremie Pelletier <jeremiep at gmail.com> wrote:
>> John wrote:
>>> Hi Jeremie, just curious, have you measured the effort to use DWT
>>> instead of wxWidgets for Code Poet ?
>> More or less, I wasn't aware of any DWT for D2 at the time and I'd rather
>> use C++ with boost than D1, just a matter of personal preference (D2 > C++
>> w/ boost > D1 > C++ w/o boost.)
>>
>> A GUI application is much easier to develop with an IDE with debugging
>> capabilities like VisualStudio. And using precompiled headers drops the
>> compile times close to what dmd would do.
>>
>> The goal of the IDE is not to show off what can be done with D, but to make
>> it possible.
> 
> How about QtD?  That supposedly works with D2.  Haven't had a chance
> to confirm it myself, though.
> 
> But even if you're using C++ -- now that Qt is LGPL I don't see why
> anyone would choose wxWidgets, unless they really have to because of
> wx's more liberal licensing.  But LGPL is good enough for most things.
>  I would think it should certainly be good enough for an IDE that
> itself will be GPL.
> 
> --bb

I'm not really familiar with Qt unfortunately, and my GUI code is mostly 
done except for a few dialogs and events.

Jeremie


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