DFL is really cool,Who can contact Christopher E. Miller?

jack death via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun May 18 10:58:02 PDT 2014


this sucks. it would be nice to get a gui lib that works with 32 
and 64 bit. create a nice language and don't the tools/libs to 
use it.
with your attitude you will not have a chance to became main 
stream.


On Sunday, 18 May 2014 at 17:50:47 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> On Thursday, 15 May 2014 at 03:58:15 UTC, FrankLike wrote:
>> 1.DFL's Memory Usage is the least than other. winsamp.exe is
>> 2.1M,DFL's example's exe is 2.7M.
>> 2.The size of DFL's example's exe files is the least than 
>> other,
>> and only a single file.
>> 3.DFL's source code is the most easy to understand.
>>
>> D need Christopher E. Miller.
>
>> Why not put it in github.com?
>
>> And put it in code.dlang.org.
>
>> When Compile the X64,then error:
>
>> You will put it in code.dlang.org and github.com?
>
>> DGui is very cool,the exe's size is a half of DFL's,and it's 
>> easy to learn.
>>
>> If It will be used on Linux ,Mac Os X,it will be the coolist 
>> of all gui libs.
>
>> And there are some controls are not implement,such as 
>> imageButton,GridView,DateTimePick,Socket,DataControl.....
>> Thank you.
>
> FrankLike, please stop asking others to create full GUI 
> frameworks for you. DFL and DGui are both Windows ONLY and 
> always will be. They are written using the Win32 API which can 
> only be used on windows (or an emulation layer).
>
> Take a look at the source code of either library and improve it 
> yourself without trying to push it on to others. Fully 
> cross-platform GUI toolkits are very, very hard to create. 
> That's why Gtk-D and Tkd exist, to use the years of hard work 
> others have done. Once you see the amount of work necessary to 
> create such GUI libraries you will use Gtk-D or Tkd instead. 
> Also stop whining about memory usage of GUI applications. 3-4Mb 
> is nothing for such an app.
>
> Yes it would be nice to have a cross-platform GUI toolkit 
> written in D using all the native API's on each platform but 
> that isn't going to happen anytime soon. Pushing others to do 
> the work is going to be counter productive. Why not start the 
> effort yourself and invite others to join you once progress is 
> made?



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