Gui in D: I miss this project

rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jan 13 00:06:51 PST 2017


On 13/01/2017 9:04 PM, Vadim Lopatin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 January 2017 at 15:56:46 UTC, Chris Wright wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 07:21:22 +0000, thedeemon wrote:
>>> If you need some GUI, DLangUI is just a "dub build" away.
>>
>> How does DLangUI do with screen readers and magnifiers?
>>
>> From what I'm seeing, neither GTK+ nor Qt work with screen readers
>> anad other assistive technologies. wxWidgets has some accessibility
>> bugs (wxGrid is invisible to screen readers). DLangUI uses OpenGL, so
>> it's less likely to support screen magnifiers (and equally unlikely to
>> support screen readers).
>
> Checked magnifier under Windows. Works ok for DlangUI apps built with
> OpenGL support as well as software renderer (configuration="minimal").
> If OpenGL is stopper for magnifier on other platforms, it's possible to
> try minimal configuration.
>
> Currently DlangUI does not support screen readers.
> I'm not sure what is API to support screen readers.
> If there should be ability to get control text from window by X,Y - it
> can be added easy.

A bit older reference for Win32[0].
But this means COM.

[0] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/gg712214.aspx



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