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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