GUI text input dialog with few lines

[Adam D Ruppe]

On Friday, 20 October 2023 at 20:43:21 UTC, Felipe Lema wrote:
> I don't mind using any or other GUI framework, but I do aim to 
> have a windows-exe-with-as-few-dlls-as-possible

My minigui.d can do this fairly easily:

```
import arsd.minigui;

void main() {
         // need to define the data you want in a struct,
         // it requires a struct even if you only want one item
         struct Data {
                 string code;
         }

         // then do the dialog function with the struct and it
         // auto-creates a dialog for all the parts of the struct
         // and calls the function you provide when the user hits 
OK
         dialog((Data received) {
                 // you got the number here
                 messageBox("You gave me " ~ received.code);

                 // note that if they hit cancel, this function is 
NOT
                 // called, the dialog is just closed without 
running
                 // this code.
         });

         // need to run the event loop explicitly, this will 
return when
         // all windows are closed
         EventLoop.get.run();
}
```

If you use dub you can add it as dependency:

https://code.dlang.org/packages/arsd-official%3Aminigui


arsd-official:minigui


If you don't use dub, it needs about 6 files out of the repo, but 
i suggest you clone the whole thing then use dmd -i.


But anyway, on Windows it uses the native text box so there's no 
dlls needed. On Linux, it uses my full custom stuff so no libs 
required there either.