[ot] D and graphics on Linux

[Ant]

In article <e1lnfk$2hn5$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Lars Ivar Igesund says...
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>John Demme wrote:
>
>> Georg Wrede wrote:
>> 
>>> Slightly off-topic, but:
>>> 
>>> I may be in a position to make the first Processing Plant Production
>>> Line Control Software in D. To my knowledge, at least. :-)
>>> 
>>> That would include, among other things, a display of some of the vital
>>> parameters of the process as real-time graphs. (Temperatures, wattages,
>>> production speed, etc.)
>>> 
>>> The choice of language and operating system is mine, and being a D
>>> bigot, I really would like to do the stuff in D. And Windows is excluded
>>> because the plant can't afford an unstable OS for 24/7 operation. Since
>>> D is (more or less) a Win/Lin language, it'll be Linux.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Now, being a pay-project, I need to find a productive choice of
>>> libraries and tools to maximise Productivity. (Specified as man-hours to
>>> delivery.)
>>> 
>>> The graphs will be on X (as opposed to Linux console graphics), so that
>>> they can be viewed off-shopfloor too.
>>> 
>>> Does anybody have experience on this kind of stuff?
>> 
>> There's Ant's D OO frontend for GTK, but I've found it to be pretty
>> incomplete.
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>Well it's been through a makeover, and I'm finding it quite complete now,
>although it hasn't been through much testing yet to be totally sure that
>everything works as it should. Ant is fairly responsive whenever somebody
>reports an issue though. Of course, I'm currently using it, so I say the
>more, the merrier :) Whether it's the most productive solution is another
>question, if you know gtk, it should be quite easy to find the D'ified
>solution.
>

I'll make a formal announcement of the new version soon.
Before that I'm finising converting leds to the new version and 
I need to test and fix the windows version.
The big change is the binding/wrapping is now totally automated.
(I'll also be changing the name from DUI to GtkD (maybe)).

Ant