FLTK2 bindings for D

Gregor Richards Richards at codu.org
Tue Dec 5 08:44:01 PST 2006


bobef wrote:
> Gregor Richards wrote:
>> I hate to compete with the far more compelling FLTK-port-to-D thread, 
>> but I don't think many people know about this, and it's definitely 
>> useful.  There are FLTK2 bindings in D, autogenerated by bcd.gen ( 
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/bcd/ ).  Since they're generated 
>> automatically, they have very nearly the exact same API as the native 
>> C++ ones, PLUS they're easy to keep up to date (if they become 
>> incompatible, I can just run the script again and bring them up to date).
>>
>> They're available in SVN, info on checking them out is on the BCD web 
>> page ( http://www.dsource.org/projects/bcd/ ).
>>
>> Finally: These bindings have been partially but not completely tested. 
>> If you find a problem, it can probably be solved quite easily, in most 
>> cases it's a discrepancy between the FLTK2 .h files and .cxx files 
>> (naughty naughty).  Just tell me by some means (NG, email, whatever).
>>
>>  - Gregor Richards
> Can't the same be done with wxWidgets?
> 

Not at this time. wxWidgets does some mighty funky things with C++'s 
lame ripoff of delegates, and those are 1) not consistent between 
compilers and 2) a black box, so there's no easy way to translate them to D.

  - Gregor Richards



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