GUI library

freeagle freeagle at inmail.sk
Thu Jul 27 17:29:50 PDT 2006


Walter Bright wrote:
> 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!

Thats right. But I'm sure that some people will have good ideas, and I 
think this is the best place to ask for them :)



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