GUI library for D

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-04-05 03:36, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Daniel Gibson"<metalcaedes at gmail.com>  wrote in message
> news:inddni$kmi$3 at digitalmars.com...
>>
>> I don't know if wee need yet another GUI library.
>> Are you sure Qt and DWT aren't good enough?
>>
>
> AIUI:
>
> DWT doesn't support D2 (neither does wxD).

The Windows port now works with D2. Working on the Linux port.

> QtD requires a patched DMD, MinGW (which is fucking god-awful), and cmake (I
> have to let some variant of "make" touch my computer? Why can't we just let
> make die?). And it requires running your code through a preprocessor.
>
> And none of those have actual API documentation, they just refer to the
> C/C++ docs. I use D because I never want to look at another line of C++ as
> long as I live.

SWT is written in Java :)

> Everything else is either non-native or non-cross-platform.
>
> The state of GUIs in D right now is pretty awful, unfortunately. My plate's
> already overpacked (think: teenager at a one-trip buffet), but maybe I'll
> see if I can squeeze in enough extra time (hah! there's a concept I've
> completely lost all memory of) to try to help out on something. After all, I
> *really* want to get around to making my own web browser (based off either
> Mozilla or Chromium) - I'm getting really fed up with the current state of
> available web browsers. Well, and the web as a whole (god I fucking hate the
> web), but one step at a time, I guess).
>
>


-- 
/Jacob Carlborg