What GUI lib do you tend to use in D? if you don't use the one you want, what's preventing it?
Sai
user at tmp.com
Wed Jan 5 15:01:36 UTC 2022
On Wednesday, 5 January 2022 at 14:58:28 UTC, Sai wrote:
> On Monday, 3 January 2022 at 21:24:49 UTC, Dr Machine Code
> wrote:
>> for people devs that make GUI apps, i'd like to know the state
>> of GUI libs. What GUI lib do you tend to use in D? if you
>> don't use the one you want, what's preventing it? wrapper not
>> available? GUI designer?
>
>
> I used DWT with good success in the past it results in nice
> small executables. The learning curve is also pretty easy if
> you are familiar with Java and SWT.
>
> I experimented with dlangUI and it looked nice but looks like
> it's development suddenly stopped not sure why.
>
> I also experimented with GTKD but I only write small tools and
> I don't like to to ship a huge library of 20 megabytes (with
> all the DLLs) with small tools which are only 1 or 2 megabytes.
> Not sure if there is any way to cut down the size of the
> library.
BTW, having a GUI designer is definitely a major plus. That's why
I tend to use Java swing with Netbeans a lot because Java is
already installed on most of the client PCs in my company.
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