Library request thread

[ponce via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 22 October 2014 at 08:25:25 UTC, Rikki Cattermole 
wrote:
> 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.
>

Interesting, it looks like it could fit the bill.

> 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.

https://github.com/callumenator/imaged has image encoders, seems 
like the most promising image library to me.

> 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*.

Abstractions for video files / images and 3D models are wildly 
different though.