GUI library

Walter Bright newshound at digitalmars.com
Thu Jul 27 17:05:19 PDT 2006


freeagle wrote:
> I joined a while ago a talk at d.D.dwt about future of DWT and other 
> possible GUI toolkits. There were many opinions, but there was one that 
> I liked the most - making a cross platform GUI library that would use 
> OpenGL as a renderer. I know there was a project called Terra, but it 
> seems that it went down. So i decided i could make something similar. It 
> would be multithreaded lib from ground up because of the way openGL 
> works with multiple windows. I dont want to make any official 
> announcement of a development taking place until I ask the D community 
> if it would welcome such effort. And what would you like it to be 
> capable of. I have my own ideas, but i dont want to make something that 
> pleases me, but will be refused by majority of the devs.

If it pleases you, odds are pretty good that you'll find a receptive 
audience for it.

It's also hard to argue with something that is implemented and works. So 
have at it!



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