Is dlangui dead?

karabuta via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Oct 24 11:59:21 PDT 2015


On Saturday, 24 October 2015 at 12:14:18 UTC, suliman wrote:
> On Saturday, 24 October 2015 at 12:07:29 UTC, karabuta wrote:
>> On Friday, 23 October 2015 at 10:09:36 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 20:14:06 UTC, karabuta wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 17:58:07 UTC, tcak wrote:
>>>>> On Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 17:01:19 UTC, karabuta wrote:
>>>>>> I hope I am wrong, but dlangui seems to be abandoned for 
>>>>>> some time after all the hard work that went into it. I 
>>>>>> really like it since it was easy to setup and get things 
>>>>>> working.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In fact, I consider it the best option.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, are you planning to fork it, and continue its 
>>>>> development as it was being developed by other developers?
>>>>
>>>> If only I knew how. Even then, I would not fork it but 
>>>> rather help out. Since making bindings to qt is a lot of 
>>>> work and unlikely to happen any time soon, I planned to go 
>>>> with dlangui.
>>>
>>> Have a look at:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.dlang.org/Libraries_and_Frameworks#GUI_Libraries
>>>
>>> GtkD is pretty stable I think. wxD should also be ok, though 
>>> I haven't tried it yet. Have a look at iup. The original is 
>>> supposed to be rock solid. Or try any other of the wrappers 
>>> listed there.
>>>
>>> At this stage, I'd recommend you to go with a wrapper. Native 
>>> D GUIs come and go and you might get stuck. With wrappers you 
>>> know what you get and if there's anything missing, you can 
>>> interface to the original framework yourself.
>>>
>>> GtkD has loads of the nice features that Gtk has, e.g. a 
>>> source code editor (with line numbers and syntax 
>>> highlighting). You can use Glade to build the interface (drag 
>>> and drop): https://glade.gnome.org/
>>
>> Thanks for the insights.
>
> Try this
> https://github.com/filcuc/DOtherSide

How cross platform is dqml by the way?


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