Whither DWT?
Kyle Furlong
kylefurlong at gmail.com
Mon May 1 16:00:44 PDT 2006
freeagle wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Im quite new to D, but reading a lot of posts lately and checking some
> websites about D i can say that the demand for good GUI API is quite
> high in the community (including me).
>
> And i must say i agree with the idea of using OpenGL for making a cross
> platform GUI. Having a modern GUI rendered using graphics hardware could
> drag more attention to D. And problem of not native look of such API
> could be easily handled using different themes. When i checked Terra
> project source, the actual style of the widgets takes only few lines of
> code and a set of images. For me, OpenGL is the right way to go.
>
> Freeagle
All Terra needs is a complete widget set. Like you have specified, all
this takes is the logic and skinning. I wrote a scrollbar widget and
skinned it in less than a day.
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