SciD: the humble beginning

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Eldar Insafutdinov (e.insafutdinov at gmail.com)'s article
>> dsimcha Wrote:
>>> Plotting.  I've considered doing this a few times, but I've decided it needs to be
>>> put off until D2 is stable and the GUI toolkits for it are reasonably stable.  One
>>> layer of instability (D2 itself) is workable, but two layers (D2 and the GUI libs)
>>> is not.
>>>
>> It would be unfair not to mention GtkD which nobody has done in your D2 GUI libs
> thread. I think that so far it is the most mature and stable cross-platform D2 GUI
> toolkit. It's been a year since it reached version 1.0, so you should probably
> consider it. And GTK looks just fine on windows.
> 
> Is it fast and stable on D2?  You're right that noone specifically mentioned it, I
> just got the vibe that there's no reasonably stable D2 GUI lib yet.  If you
> believe GtkD is stable enough to build other D2 libs on top of, that would be great.
> 
> Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought GTK made the tradeoff of being
> XML-based and therefore relatively slow but more flexible.  I absolutely 150%
> refuse to build a plotting library that chokes and takes a significant amount of
> time to redraw complex plots when a window is resized or moved, no matter how good
> it looks, how many features it has, or how extensible it is.

	Gtk itself isn't XML based, it is pure compiled C and therefore as 
fast as your compiler can make it. The only thing that's XML in Gtk 
is dynamic GUI loading: you can define your entire GUI through an 
XML file and have it loaded dynamically by your program. And even in 
that case, once the GUI is loaded it becomes again pure C. I don't 
see why GtkD would be any different.

		Jerome
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