DlangUI

[Vadim Lopatin via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Monday, 13 April 2015 at 17:51:54 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 May 2014 at 18:13:36 UTC, Vadim Lopatin wrote:
>> Hello!
>>
>> I would like to announce my project, DlangUI library - 
>> cross-platform GUI for D.
>> https://github.com/buggins/dlangui
>> License: Boost License 1.0
>>
>> Native library written in D (not a wrapper to other GUI 
>> library) - easy to extend.
>> As a backend, uses SDL2 on any platform, Win32 API on Windows, 
>> XCB on Linux. Other backends can be added easy.
>> Tested on Windows and Linux.
>> Supports hardware acceleration - drawing using OpenGL when 
>> built with version=USE_OPENGL.
>> Unicode support.
>> Internationalization support.
>> Uses Win32 API fonts on Windows, and FreeType on other 
>> platforms.
>> Same look and feel can be achieved on all platforms.
>> Flexible look and feel - themes and styles.
>> API is a bit similar to Android UI.
>> Flexible layout, support of different screen DPI, scaling.
>> Uses two phase layout like in Android.
>> Supports drawable resources in .png and .jpeg, nine-patch pngs 
>> and state drawables like in Android.
>> Single threaded. Use other threads for performing slow tasks.
>> Mouse oriented.
>>
>> Actually, it's a port (with major redesign) of my library used 
>> for cross-platform version of my application CoolReader from 
>> C++.
>>
>>
>> State of project: alpha. But, already can be used for simple 
>> 2D games and simple GUI apps.
>> I'm keeping in mind a goal to write D language IDE based on 
>> dlangui. :)
>> Adding support of 3D graphics is planned.
>>
>>
>> Currently implemented widgets:
>>
>> TextWidget - simple static text (TODO: implement multiline 
>> formatting)
>> ImageWidget - static image
>> Button - simple button with text label
>> ImageButton - image only button
>> TextImageButton - button with icon and label
>> CheckBox - check button with label
>> RadioButton - radio button with label
>> EditLine - single line edit
>> EditBox - multiline editor
>> VSpacer - vertical spacer - just an empty widget with 
>> layoutHeight == FILL_PARENT, to fill vertical space in layouts
>> HSpacer - horizontal spacer - just an empty widget with 
>> layoutWidth == FILL_PARENT, to fill horizontal space in layouts
>> ScrollBar - scroll bar
>> TabControl - tabs widget, allows to select one of tabs
>> TabHost - container for pages controlled by TabControl
>> TabWidget - combination of TabControl and TabHost
>>
>> Layouts - Similar to layouts in Android
>>
>> LinearLayout - layout children horizontally or vertically 
>> depending on orientation
>> VerticalLayout - just a LinearLayout with vertical orientation
>> HorizontalLayout - just a LinearLayout with vertical 
>> orientation
>> FrameLayout - all children occupy the same place; usually onle 
>> one of them is visible
>> TableLayout - children are aligned into rows and columns of 
>> table
>>
>> List Views - similar to lists in Android UI API.
>> ListWidget - layout dynamic items horizontally or vertically 
>> (one in row/column) with automatic scrollbar; can reuse 
>> widgets for similar items
>> ListAdapter - interface to provide data and widgets for 
>> ListWidget
>> WidgetListAdapter - simple implementation of ListAdapter 
>> interface - just a list of widgets (one per list item) to show
>>
>>
>> Sample project, example1 contains demo code for most of 
>> dlangui API.
>>
>> Try it using DUB:
>>
>>    git clone https://github.com/buggins/dlangui.git
>>    cd dlangui
>>    dub run dlangui:example1
>>
>> Fonts note: on Linux, several .TTFs are loaded from hardcoded 
>> paths (suitable for Ubuntu).
>> TODO: add fontconfig support to access all available system 
>> fonts.
>>
>> Helloworld:
>>
>> // main.d
>> import dlangui.all;
>> mixin DLANGUI_ENTRY_POINT;
>>
>> /// entry point for dlangui based application
>> extern (C) int UIAppMain(string[] args) {
>>    // resource directory search paths
>>    string[] resourceDirs = [
>>        appendPath(exePath, "../res/"),   // for Visual D and 
>> DUB builds
>>        appendPath(exePath, "../../res/") // for Mono-D builds
>>    ];
>>
>>    // setup resource directories - will use only existing 
>> directories
>>    Platform.instance.resourceDirs = resourceDirs;
>>    // select translation file - for english language
>>    Platform.instance.uiLanguage = "en";
>>    // load theme from file "theme_default.xml"
>>    Platform.instance.uiTheme = "theme_default";
>>
>>    // create window
>>    Window window = Platform.instance.createWindow("My Window", 
>> null);
>>    // create some widget to show in window
>>    window.mainWidget = (new Button()).text("Hello 
>> world"d).textColor(0xFF0000); // red text
>>    // show window
>>    window.show();
>>    // run message loop
>>    return Platform.instance.enterMessageLoop();
>> }
>>
>> DDOC generated documentation can be found there: 
>> https://github.com/buggins/dlangui/tree/master/docs
>> For more info see readme and example1 code.
>>
>> I would be glad to see any feedback.
>> Can this project be useful for someone? What features/widgets 
>> are must have for you?
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>     Vadim  <coolreader.org at gmail.com>
>> 	
>
> Is there any way I can debug a unittest build? "Start 
> Debugging" seems bound to the debug build.

Are asking about DlangIDE?
There is no debugging here at all.

Start Debugging currently just exdecutes `dub run`