FLTK native in 'D'. Would that be useful?

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matthiasm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am one of the co-authors of FLTK. I like 'D' and as a test I have manually
> translated parts of FLTK into 
> native 'D' code. This is obvioulsy very different from just writing a wrapper,
> more involved, but also 
> more rewarding.
> 
> Before I jump into manually porting a few hundred thousand lines of code, I
> would really like to know 
> first if the 'D' community is interested in such a thing at all and if I can get
> sufficient support and a 
> reasonable number of users. 
> 
> What do you folks think?
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 
> FLTK is a Fast and Light user interface Tool Kit. It sets directly onto the low
> lever interfaces of the three 
> main supported platforms (MSWindows:WIN32, Unix including Linux: X11, Mac OS X:
> Carbon/Quartz). 
> FLTK is in use by several thousand people all over the world. It comes with a
> visual user interface 
> designer that spews out readable C++ (and after the coversion 'D').
> 
> Come check it out at http://www.fltk.org/
> 
> 

I would be interested in seeing a good GUI kit for D, FLTK looks as good 
as (or better) the others I've seen.

BTW, does FLTK access the native GUI framework, or does it shell around 
them?