Ideas for a brand new widget toolkit

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 07:19:09 UTC, Marek Janukowicz wrote:
> If we are discussing X's shortcomings: why don't we use 
> something like http://wayland.freedesktop.org/

I don't have it installed on my computer! I do have X though.

BTW, my minigui.d (previously crappygui.d) is moving along at a 
decent pace. Now has menus too, yay! I decided to use native 
widgets on Windows after all, when applicable. It looks better 
and automatically handles focus, hotkeys, etc. It still uses a 
simple automatic layout function though, so you just add children 
to the window and it figures out the sizes.

On X though, I'm still doing it all myself, keeping it small (and 
fast on remote X! lol). So far, the minigui.d is 1100 lines long. 
I think I can do everything I want to do in between 2000 and 3000 
lines. The test program on windows is 370 KB, no outside 
dependencies built with dmd, and the only modules it needs are my 
simpledisplay.d and color.d, though I might have it depend on 
eventloop later too. (It is about the same size using custom 
widgets too; calls to Rectangle() and LineTo(), via 
simpledisplay.d's ScreenPainter, aren't significantly bigger than 
calls to CreateWindow()).


Anyway though, I'll probably post this to my github at some point 
over the weekend. There isn't much to it.... but IMO that's the 
best feature. The other D gui libs I've tried are all just too 
complex for me.