Ideal D GUI Toolkit

[Peter Williams]

On 21/05/13 12:53, Adam Wilson wrote:
> On Mon, 20 May 2013 16:50:47 -0700, Peter Williams
> <pwil3058 at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
>> On 21/05/13 08:49, Adam Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd be willing to lead the project, I'm just not sure I am the right
>>> person to do so. I have a vision, and the skeleton of a design, but no
>>> code. I am willing, but my ability is a question mark...
>>>
>>
>> I'd volunteer to be a foot soldier on this project as I'd like D to
>> have a useful GUI capability.  At the moment, my experience of GUI
>> programming is at the user of the API end of the spectrum (mostly
>> using PyGTK to write GUI wrappers for command line programs to make my
>> life easier) but I think I'm a quick learner.  Also as a GUI API user
>> I have some idea of the sorts of thing that make a good API.
>>
>> If D had a usable GUI API I would port at least one of my current
>> PyGTK programs to D as it would benefit from better number crunching
>> capability than Python possesses.
>>
>> So, if this gets up, give me a call.
>> Peter
>>
>
> I'd love to get this up and running but I think we've got a blocker
> right now in D and that is the lack of package import,
> the GUI system is
> going to be a monster no matter how it's sliced and I'd lack to avoid
> the std.datetime effect. Sorry Jonathan Davis!

Why do you need package import?  Can't you achieve the equivalent by 
having one module that imports all the others publicly leaving the 
application programmer only one module to import?

>
> Once we get package import into D we can start building out the basics.
> Do you have any experience with concurrent hashmaps by chance?

No. Why do you want concurrency? Aren't associative arrays hashmaps?  My 
only experience with hashing techniques (other than as an end user of 
classes/functions/features using them) was implementing git binary 
patches in Python for use in one of my GUIs.

> Or any
> other types of containers?
>

I implemented a "left leaning red black" tree in Go (as a basis for 
implementing various "set" containers) a while back before I abandoned 
Go due to their silly "inject ';' at the end of lines" hack in the 
lexical analyser.  Also, the basis of my PhD thesis was the equivalent 
of an optimal redundant discrimination tree which is a kind of container 
albeit fairly specialised.

Peter