[GSoC] Container proposals by Ishan and Christian

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-04-04 17:01, Zz wrote:
> You can look at IUP which is simple written in C and comes with the MIT licence.
>
> http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/
>
> Zz

No Mac OS X support as far as I can see.

> Matthias Pleh Wrote:
>
>> On 2011-04-03 21:05, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> I think it's not too late to improve our GSoC ideas page
>>
>> So here come my ideas
>>
>>
>>
>> There is still the lack of a good D Gui Library.
>> Currently some GUI's are still under development (most projects on
>> dsoure are abandoned!), but none of them are really perfect D-GUI's
>> * GtkD ->  good and stable, but a D wrapper around a C-library
>> * DWT  ->  also good, but a port from Java and not really D-like coded
>> * DFL  ->  windows only, a way too .Net-like, is currently not very
>> active (abandoned?)
>> * ... all others I know are unmature and abandoned (tell me, if I'm
>> wrong here!)
>>
>> So there comes 2 ideas to my mind:
>>
>>
>> - Abstraction Layer for OS independent (Win/Linux/OSX/?) GUI development
>>     * Just basic structures/functions/classes for Window creation,
>>     event handling, ...
>>     This could be used not only by a Standard-D-Gui-library,
>>     but also by other Gui-libraries for D
>>
>> - Design of a OS independent GUI-toolkit
>>     * class-diagramm, basicstuctures, ...
>>
>> This could be the beginning of a Community-driven development of a good
>> D-GUI-library which eventualy could find its way into phobos ... ?
>



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/Jacob Carlborg