the most D-ish GUI library

Karabuta via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Mar 17 09:42:54 PDT 2016


On Wednesday, 16 March 2016 at 09:44:22 UTC, Vadim Lopatin wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 at 22:26:15 UTC, Karabuta wrote:
>> DlangUI has a nice API design but still need serious design 
>> and art work to catch up with Gtk 3.18 - 2.0 in terms of UI 
>> look and feel. I also find that it just have basic widgets. 
>> With Gtk you have Switch, Stack, Notebook, HeaderBar, and many 
>> modern input widgets for a modern GUI toolkit.
>
> Some of such widgets are easy to implement.
> Switch - just need to add new style for button to theme.
> Switch, Stack, Notebook, HeaderBar - new styles for TabHeader, 
> TabHost, TabWidget
> Can be implemented in one day.
>
> Some other controls like Rich Edit or HTML view are much harder 
> to implement, and require a lot of development time.
>
> Making of OSX native looking controls seems easy - new theme 
> based on OSX screenshots is to be created.

Well, the absence of those widgets is what keeps me from 
completely adopting DlangUI for my projects. I wish they were 
added. Modern UI is not just textboxes, lables and tables. Once 
those widgets are added,I will create my own themes and make it 
super great.



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