Java > Scala -> new thread: GUI for D

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Sun Dec 4 06:10:22 PST 2011


On 2011-12-03 19:34, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am 03.12.2011, 19:20 Uhr, schrieb Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a>:
>> FWIW, SWT would probably be somewhere in the top 3, definitely above qt
>> (because I *think* SWT is true native...?), but not sure how I'd rank it
>> compared to wx b/c I'd have to actually try them both out.
>
> As far as I understood it SWT was written for Eclipse. It may fall
> behind the other toolkits in terms of features and it is written in
> Java, so using it means a true D reimplementation of the API unless
> someone already did a C port. I think the small and native aspect made
> it a good candidate for inclusion into Phobos in the past. The much
> other toolkits are just too big.
> We may all have good eyes and such, but maybe the accessibility aspect
> should also be considered in this discussion.

DWT already exists and is a port of SWT to D. There's also a C++ port of 
SWT available, but only for Windows. I think SWT is at least as capable 
as wxWidgets.

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/Jacob Carlborg


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