Ideal D GUI Toolkit

[Adam Wilson]

On Tue, 21 May 2013 11:40:15 -0700, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2013-05-20 20:01, Adam Wilson wrote:
>
>> So I've been around D a while pushing for native D UI toolkit. And here
>> are a few trends I've seen in the community.
>
> BTW, how do you intend the controls to behave:
>
> * Emulate the behavior of each platform
> * Picking one platform and emulate that across all platforms
> * Doing something completely custom
>
> ?
>

Controls will be completely "lookless". So a control is simply a class in  
code with no associated styling whatsoever. That means that "look" is  
defined entirely with styles. This presents us with the flexibility to  
automatically load the correct look and behavior for a platform by  
default, and then let the user override it with his own styles should he  
choose to do so.

In this plan styles, as with CSS, include much of the styling behavior too.

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Adam Wilson
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The Horizon Project
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