wanting to try a GUI toolkit: needing some advice on which one to choose

Ola Fosheim Grøstad ola.fosheim.grostad at gmail.com
Tue Jun 1 22:39:08 UTC 2021


On Tuesday, 1 June 2021 at 22:13:08 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1 June 2021 at 21:47:38 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
> wrote:
>> Right now, drag-and-drop is not as easily supported in browser 
>> UIs though. That is an argument for using native UI.
>
> eh web drag and drop isn't half bad at all. Have you ever used 
> it?

My understanding is that dropping OS icons onto the web view is 
problematic, but maybe they have overcome this because of Chrome 
OS. No, I don't use it, except for file uploads.

>> Note: Many simple GUI toolkits are horribly inefficient as 
>> they let each object render themselves.
>
> That doesn't make any sense.

Yes, it does. You get lots of graphic context switches and poor 
render-caching performance.


More information about the Digitalmars-d-learn mailing list