Cross Platform GUI Development

[Jeroen Bollen]

On Sunday, 23 March 2014 at 19:56:47 UTC, Denis Shelomovskij 
wrote:
> 23.03.2014 16:34, Jeroen Bollen пишет:
>> Are there any tools to do this at all in Digitalmars D? All 
>> current
>> libraries seem to be outdated, but GTKD. GTK on it's end is a 
>> pain to
>> bundle which is enough to not consider it cross platform at 
>> all.
>
> First, I don't understand what is the problem with GTK?
>
> Also there is DWT, but I already have spent some time on it and 
> I'd like to suggest to not use it as its sources is a mess.
>
> As for cross-platform GUI app, I'd suggest to use own native 
> GUI library for every platform as it looks like an easiest and 
> the most convenient for the user of your program approach.
>
> The problem is it's too common to connect application login and 
> GUI, so for my personal purposes I created MetaUI [1] which 
> allow such intermediate layer and you only create native GUI 
> elements, place it somewhere and connect with logic elements 
> from MetaUI, see examples. As a native GUI I use GTK (mainly my 
> own fast, correct and very usable bindings [2]) over MetaUI for 
> now, but when I will have more time I will use DGui on Windows 
> just to decrease program installation size. The only problem is 
> a Mac OS X for which I don't know working GUI library (I don't 
> target it for now, GTK may work but with PITA), but with MetaUI 
> it shouldn't be a problem to use some C one as the only thing 
> you need is a way to connect C widgets to D logic controls.
>
> [1] https://bitbucket.org/denis-sh/metaui
> [2] https://bitbucket.org/denis-sh/gtkd
> [3] https://bitbucket.org/dgui/dgui

The main problem I have with GTK is that it's a mess to setup on 
Windows for the end user.