D "Swing"

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-12-24 14:51, Chris wrote:

> No, of course not. But the bugs would be in-house, i.e. in one place and
> could be dealt with immedieately, whereas with native bindings you have
> two possible sources for bugs, one of which (the native os) you have no
> control over whatsoever.

You always need to have some kind of connection to some other 
library/platform, be it a web browser or the native GUI of the system. 
You might be able to minimize that connection and minimize the number of 
bugs there is always the possibility of bugs.

> I don't actually care how exactly a standard GUI toolkit for D is
> accomplished (I am not into software-philosophical debates) as long as
> it is done and done quickly (My apologies, I sound like a CEO now!). I
> only have my doubts whether DWT is really the best solution or whether
> we are just wasting time.

DWT is done (well, nothing is ever done but useable) now, except from 
for Mac OS X. Can you point me to some other GUI library that is done 
and is using a non-native approach?

Well, now that I'm thinking about it there's GTK, which is basically the 
only other GUI option for D that is usable. GTK is far from native.

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/Jacob Carlborg