D "Swing"

[evilrat]

On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 10:34:42 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>
>> so i think HTML/JS is the really(but not only, yes) 
>> crossplatform(phones, set top boxes, pc's, just about 
>> everywhere...), fast, cost effecient(the only tool you need to 
>> start develop is text editor and browser with developer tools, 
>> almost all if not any has such tools, there is lot of 
>> designers and JS programmers, and so on) and modern UI, so you 
>> can take a look at my recent project - 
>> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/azrwqdorulvwhjcmmrxx@forum.dlang.org 
>> though it still in alpha
>>
>>
>> sorry if that's not what you expect for gui framework stuff 
>> such as gtk or qt.
>
> I'd prefer a fully-fledged pure D solution for desktop apps. 
> With D's ability to integrate C code native extensions should 
> be manageable. But the framework should be self-contained like 
> Swing. With extensions I mean things like using a Mac menu bar, 
> use system services etc but the widgets should be D's own.
>
> However, I also like HTML/JS solutions but am not sure whether 
> they can replace a real GUI framework like Cocoa or Swing. JS 
> is at times cumbersome to use for user interfaces.

i'd try to clarify... my project IS just another bindings project 
but it binds to HTML stuff library. inside this library one could 
do anything using only declarative language(HTML+CSS) and bind 
that declarative code using JS to D part, that way one would 
focusing on making UI elements, UI style(look'n'feel), UI JS 
glueing code(and thats all separatedly, MVC in effect) apart from 
native D code, so writing cocoa menu's or other stuff and present 
it to HTML world should be simple, actually it even doesn't need 
to do this, since D part would contain business logic and HTML 
part is just all UI code isolated.

so it's more likely one may want just make programmaticaly-like 
UI framework(like qt/gtk) on top of HTML/CSS/JS written in D 
which does all declarative and glueing stuff behind the scene to 
mimic "truly D ui's", at least from programmers point of view 
there would be no difference.