D2 GUI Libs

[dolive]

dsimcha дµ½:

> I'm thinking of giving another try to writing a plotting library for D.  I'm
> trying to decide what GUI library to use.  Here's what's important to me, in
> order of importance.  Someone who's more familiar with the GUI library
> situation than I am please make a recommendation.
> 
> 1.  Good D2 support.  I don't want something that's going to take forever to
> be usable in D2 even after the spec is stable.
> 
> 2.  Performance.  If a scatter plot with 50,000 points takes a few seconds to
> redraw when the window is resized, it's too slow.  I'm frankly sick of using
> slow plotting libraries in other languages.
> 
> 3.  Licensing.  I prefer something permissive like BSD or Boost.  LGPL is
> acceptable, though annoying and sometimes ambiguous.  If it's GPL I just plain
> won't use it because I want the license to the plotting library to be
> reasonably permissive.
> 
> 4.  Simplicity of API.  I don't want a library that requires tons of
> boilerplate to do simple things.
> 
> 5.  Platform support.  Windows XP, Vista and 7 and x86 Linux are a must.  I
> don't care so much about macs or some of the more esoteric platforms, or about
> ancient versions of Windows.
> 
> What isn't very important:
> 
> 1.  Lots of features/flexibility.  I'm thinking the plotting lib will be a
> minimalist library, focused on "just working", simplicity of API and
> performance rather than on lots of bells and whistles and extensibility.
> Therefore, I don't need lots of bells and whistles in my GUI library.
> 
> 2.  Native look and feel.  IMHO this is very overrated.  I've never found that
> a Java-ish or GTK-ish or whatever look and feel instead of a native Win32 look
> and feel got in the way of me using a program effectively.
> 
> 3.  Stable ABI.  The plotting library will never have a stable ABI, only a
> stable source-level API.  Most of the API will probably be templates anyhow.
> Therefore, I don't care if the GUI library has no stable ABI, only a stable
> source-level API.


extend DFL or ports  wxWidgets .
thanks

dolive