Library request thread

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 22/10/2014 9:13 p.m., ponce wrote:
> I feel like we need a NG thread for D users to come and ask for new
> libraries/bindings.
>
> Express your needs! Here are mines.
>
> 1. A windowing library to replace some of SDL usage. Some programs like
> audio plugins are usually done without any dependent dynamic library. It
> could also make one less dependency on many small programs. I would
> expect it to be based on Win32/X11/Cocoa.

I'm playing round (on and off) with DWC [0]. Think e.g. GLFW but only 
for window / opengl context creation with a feature set identical on all 
platforms.

If anybody has an example of custom event loop for Cocoa that runs only 
one iteration (so I can control per iteration for a frame) please let me 
know.

Now to expand on what I would like:
1. Media libraries such as png/tiff/jpeg abstracted out into image which 
would be our go to image library. With conversion support.
Including for 3d models, video files.
This could be AMAZING for D to have everything integrated for these 
libs. Supporting mapping an image to a 3d model that is both freely 
editable in code is just *drools*.
2. Wrappers around opengl functions so e.g. taking arrays instead of 
pointers and lengths.
I have already got a bit of code on this with DOOGLE.


[0] https://github.com/rikkimax/DWC