GUI library for D

[Matthias Pleh]

Am 05.04.2011 03:25, schrieb Michel Fortin:
> On 2011-04-04 19:55:44 -0400, Adam Ruppe <destructionator at gmail.com> said:
>
>> Michel Fortin wrote:
>>> On the other hand, one thing that is missing right now, in D and in
>>> most languages, is a standard way to display graphics.
>>
>> Actually, I wrote something to do that last year, but I thought
>> it was too trivial to share.
>>
>> What you do is just draw some RGB stuff to a big memory buffer. Then
>> you can save as bmp, png, or create a window to display it.
>>
>> There was no interaction with the window, except closing it. You'd
>> pop up the window so the user can review the picture, then he closes
>> it and your program continues where it left off.
>>
>> Changing it to allow some updating and interaction shouldn't be
>> too hard.
>>
>> It worked for both win32 and x11, no libraries required.
>
> Reminds me of David Simcha's plot2kill, which also has such a layer on
> top of which it implements plot drawing.
> <http://www.dsource.org/projects/plot2kill>
>
>
>> 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.
>
> I think such a module would be a great addition to Phobos.
>

@Michael
Your right. That's what I've tried to say in my other thread. Just a 
_standard_ way to display graphics. This could be a base for other works.

@Adam
Have you some code around, which we can push further?


°Matthias