Standard GUI framework inspired by Qt

Kagamin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Mar 5 04:02:20 PST 2015


On Thursday, 5 March 2015 at 11:06:18 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 08:16:37 +0000, Kagamin wrote:
>
>> On Thursday, 5 March 2015 at 05:17:44 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>>> as for me, it's also very hard to decide what scope of GUI 
>>> library
>>> should be. i.e. is this library just for me, so i can expose 
>>> internals
>>> and simply add the comment "don't change this thing" to the 
>>> code?
>> 
>> You mean access to the backend primitives?
>
> nope. i mean access to widget object's internals.

The widget object should have only the backend widget handle as 
internal. Well, and maybe signal storage.

>>> is this a simple library with limited set of controls, or i 
>>> want it to
>>> be infinitely extendable?
>> 
>> Provide a minimal set of controls and extended one in a 
>> separate
>> library. Should be doable, I see no reason to fix the control 
>> set.
>
> the reason is that with fixed set i can greatly simplify 
> library code.

Winforms is simple and absolutely agnostic about controls.


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