D "Swing"

Wed Dec 26 08:32:47 PST 2012

On Wednesday, 26 December 2012 at 15:54:12 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2012-12-25 22:40, Chris wrote:

> Unfortunately no, there is no timeline. I'm doing this on my 
> spare time which, as for most here, is very limited. I'm also 
> working on other D projects.

Time is an issue, I know. I'd like to help you but my time is 
limited too.

> It definitely will be. Since I started with D1 and Tango I want 
> to finish the port first, before I switch to D2. I'm hoping the 
> switch to D2 will be fairly easy since the utility 
> libraries/functions are already ported to D2 (the Windows and 
> Linux versions use them).

That would be great.

> I want to use DWT as well. Since my main platform is Mac OS X 
> it will happen.
>

>
> I pronounce the three characters separately, D-W-T. DWT is 
> short for D Widget Toolkit. A play on the original name SWT - 
> Standard Widget Toolkit.

I once read that SWT is pronounced "SWAT", so I thought "DWAT" 
would be the logical consequence (which sounds a bit like "twat").

> D kind of had that feature. I don't know if it's still 
> available but deprecated or completely removed. I think it 
> could extract all code in code-tags:
>
> <code>int i = 0;</code>
>
> http://digitalmars.com/d/1.0/html.html

Now that you mention it, I read that too. I was thinking of a PHP 
like embedding like this:

<html>
...
<?d
auto greeting = "Hello";
writeln(greeting);
?>
...
</html>

I wonder how hard it would be to implement something like this 
for D.