Empire for Win32 written with MinWin?

[Charles]

 > At that point, I decided to try out Vathix's DFL for porting an app
 > from MFC to D. I found DFL to work well and to be actively supported.
 > I hope that the selection of DWT doesn't reduce DFL development and
 > progress.

I like DFL too , its especially useful for people coming from .NET.  And 
it has kick-ass GUI builder ( http://www.dprogramming.com/entice.php ) .

 > IMHANVIO (in my humble and not very informed opinion), DFL (and
 > perhaps MinWin?) would be appropriate to be considered as official and
 > endorsed gui libraries for D.

I do think that digitalmars.D.dwt should be renamed

D.gui.dwt

Which would also allow for

D.gui.dfl
D.gui.wxD
D.gui.MinWin
D.gui.dui

etc ...

Particularly because DWT is not the product of Digitalmars.

$0.02

Charlie


Lynn Allan wrote:
> <alert comment="windows developer who is relatively ignorant about
> cross-platform issues except for bad experiences with wxWidgets">
> 
> My understanding is that the latest Empire for Win32 was written with
> MinWin. I recall looking at MinWin quite a while back, and was
> intrigued by the concept of a minimal gui library.
> 
> At that point, I decided to try out Vathix's DFL for porting an app
> from MFC to D. I found DFL to work well and to be actively supported.
> I hope that the selection of DWT doesn't reduce DFL development and
> progress.
> 
> I was actually pleasantly surprised at the functionality in MinWin
> that was available and used by Empire .... such as RadioButtons and
> dialogs. Nice job, Ben.
> 
> My question: considering the dominance of Windows on the desktop, does
> that justify having a non-portable gui library for Windows being
> endorsed, supported, and/or "official"? (whatever that means) .... in
> addition to DWT?
> 
> IMHANVIO (in my humble and not very informed opinion), DFL (and
> perhaps MinWin?) would be appropriate to be considered as official and
> endorsed gui libraries for D.
> 
> </alert>
> 
> 
> 
>