Incomprehensible compiler errors

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-07-31 19:30, Stuart wrote:

> Of course it's *my* opinion. Whose else opinion would it be?
>
> And that's just the point. I'm *not* using D. I *want* to be using D,
> and I've been *trying* to use D, but I keep hitting strange compiler
> errors and libraries that won't compile (i.e. DFL).
>
> I like D. It's been well-thought-out. But without tools, how can it be
> used? Yeah, I know, many of you don't use IDEs - but tell me this. How
> can I write a GUI? Whether you like GUIs is beside the point:
> Applications need them. There's no point writing a decent-sized program
> without one. And yet (without DFL) you have no library support for them
> whatsoever. To create a window or a button, I must use CreateWindow().
> To handle events, I must use GetMessageA(). To resize controls when the
> parent window changes size, I have to do it all by hand, in code.
>
> DFL and intellisense. Those are the areas this project is lacking.

Have a look at DWT, I think it should work with DMD 2.059.

http://dsource.org/projects/dwt
https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/dwt

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg