Empire for Win32 written with MinWin?

[Kyle Furlong]

Charles wrote:
>  > 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>
>>
>>
>>
>>

I also really like DFL, coming from a .NET background as well.