GUI library for D

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-04-05 01:41, Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2011-04-04 17:27:05 -0400, Matthias Pleh <jens at konrad.net> said:
>
>> I would like to fill this gap and create a really good D GUI library
>>
>> Any thoughts, comments ... ?
>
> Just an observation...
>
> Cross platform libraries are fine, but they generally aren't very great
> either. They'll always stretch in one way or another the standard way to
> do things when put on a given platform. The end result will almost
> always look substandard when using that library in the environment it
> was not primarily designed for.

If you use the cross platform library for most of the application and 
then use the native libraries to add details and further customize the 
application I think it can look pretty good.

> On the other hand, one thing that is missing right now, in D and in most
> languages, is a standard way to display graphics. By that I mean if we
> had in Phobos a module that could just open a window and let you draw
> things in it, it'd make learning programming much more fun and it'd be
> useful for rapid prototyping of anything that involves graphics. It
> doesn't need to be complicated -- it doesn't even need to have a GUI --
> just drawing things and viewing them somewhere on a screen would be
> great. Later on you can add click support, full screen mode and other
> features if deemed useful, but the goal would never be provide bindings
> for every piece of GUI on all platforms.
>
> So my observation is that a cross platform full-featured GUI will always
> fail somewhere (mostly where those platforms differs) whereas a cross
> platform drawing module with display capabilities is much more
> universally useful, is more easily approachable, and is much less code
> to maintain.
>


-- 
/Jacob Carlborg