D "Swing"

[Chris]

On Monday, 24 December 2012 at 11:59:31 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

>
> Am one of those who prefer to use native widgets compared to 
> something like GTK. But as you say they don't all provide all 
> features. I think a good idea is the use a cross-platform GUI 
> library for the common widgets that exists on all platforms, 
> i.e. buttons and windows. There's not reason to use the native 
> API for those. Then extend that with platform specif code using 
> the native API, i.e. unified tool bar, sheets and so on, that 
> is found on Mac OS X.
>
>
> I agree that it would be really nice to have a cross-platform 
> GUI framework written explicitly for D. But as you say that 
> would be an enormous task to do.
>
> I'm working on the Mac OS X port of DWT. It all compiles but a 
> lot is not working. Some snippets are working:
>
> https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/dwt-mac
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>

Perhaps the link you just posted could provide a HTML-based 
solution: 
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/yfmgvgprfpiquakiyjlk@forum.dlang.org

That'd be pretty cool.