Standard GUI framework inspired by Qt

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 5 March 2015 at 07:39:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-03-03 23:29, Jonas Drewsen wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 3 March 2015 at 22:16:36 UTC, Freddy wrote:
>
>>> I'm not much of a gui person,but what is the advantage of 
>>> using QML
>>> over D's import
>>> statements(http://dlang.org/expression.html#ImportExpression) 
>>> and CTFE.
>>
>> No need to recompile (ie. have the source code) the app you 
>> are doing
>> when you change the QML. This in turn also speeds up design 
>> iterations.
>
> I've been thinking of a design that there's a GUI builder tool. 
> When the developer builds the GUI the tool will serialize the 
> GUI to some format, XML, binary or whatever. The application 
> that uses the GUI can load it at runtime for fast development 
> cycles.
>
> As an optimization the tool can serialize the GUI as D code. 
> The application can than, at compile time, load the D code 
> using import expression and mix it in somewhere. In theory, it 
> should be as the developer wrote GUI code by hand.

This is the approach taken by modern GUI toolkits for native 
applications, Qt, JavaFX, XAML, Android.

I imagine on Mac OS/iOS NIBs also follow a similar pattern.

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Paulo