What Features Should A GUI toolkit have?

ketmar via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Mar 6 02:55:34 PST 2015


On Fri, 06 Mar 2015 10:01:34 +0000, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:

> On Friday, 6 March 2015 at 07:49:51 UTC, ketmar wrote:
>> it should be turned inside out: to be productive we need component
>> framework a-la BlackBox Component Builder. sadly, most people were
>> never worked with *real* component framework, so they keep thinking
>> that "ide +
>> gui builder + compiler is like component framework". no, no, and no.
>> not even close. that loses the main property of component frameworks:
>> you aren't writing program using CF, you are simply extending CF until
>> it can do what you want.
> 
> Components are coming to HTML5:
> 
> http://jonrimmer.github.io/are-we-componentized-yet/

wow, what a shitload of crap! exactly what i mean when i wrote "most 
people doing it wrong".

> Sure, you can do your own in D, but you probably cannot keep up if this
> takes off... It would make a lot more sense to focus on efficient
> synchronization between native D arrays and javascript and utilize what
> already is there. HTML5 provides ArrayView objects that basically are
> slices of raw memory.
> 
> It could work out nicely.

but that's crap. it's in no way even near the Component Framework. it's 
the same old GUI crap, but this time with fancy new name.
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