GUI library for D

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Michel Fortin" <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote in message 
news:indtda$trl$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 2011-04-04 21:46:08 -0400, "Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> said:
>
>> "Michel Fortin" <michel.fortin at michelf.com> wrote in message
>> news:indr8m$qfc$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> On 2011-04-04 19:55:44 -0400, Adam Ruppe <destructionator at gmail.com> 
>>> said:
>>>
>>>> The reason I wrote it was that I really miss the simplicity of DOS
>>>> programming, where with just a few lines of inline asm, you have
>>>> a dead-simple video buffer to play with.
>>>
>>> Indeed. Today you generally have to pile up a lot of GUI code just to be
>>> able to draw a square; all the simplicity is lost and portability is 
>>> hard.
>>
>> Even with SDL's D bindings?
>
> Don't know. What is the minimal code you have to write to open a window 
> and draw a square with SDL?
>

I'm not really sure. I've been sinking in the web-dev quicksand/firepits so 
long I've never really had a chance to actually use SDL in D, and I don't 
remember any of SDL's API.

> Also, you have to download the library and link to it and keep the dynamic 
> library around with the compiled program, which is some more hassle.
>
> But you're right that SDL comes pretty close.
>