OS X GUI library

Kapps opantm2+spam at gmail.com
Fri Feb 14 16:37:10 PST 2014


On Friday, 14 February 2014 at 18:17:15 UTC, Anton wrote:
>  From searching this forum I know that the question of which GUI
> library to use comes up every once in a while, but I don't want
> to bump old threads, especially since many of them seem to have
> strayed off into quasi-philosophical discussions of whatever (as
> is perfectly normal on this Internet).
>
> I am an OS X user and pretty much beginner in D who wants to
> write a simple application with a GUI. I know that GtkD is the
> most stable cross-platform GUI library out there, but for
> whatever reason after a full day of doing all sorts of things
> with it I can't get it to work on my Mac. I was going to post a
> question on the GtkD forums, but seeing that the latest post on
> there was from May of last year discouraged me from doing that.
>
> QtD seems to have been abandoned. Most other libraries either
> have little support for OS X (it seems that OS X users of D are
> practically non-existent, which I suppose is too bad for me), or
> have been left to wither away, too.
>
> Is there a more or less stable GUI library with decent support
> for OS X, with good documentation and/or examples *in D* (that
> is, not C, C++, or Java)?
>
> Thanks.


A rather different approach would be to use something like 
Awesomium. I remember evilrat made bindings for it 
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/azrwqdorulvwhjcmmrxx@forum.dlang.org#post-azrwqdorulvwhjcmmrxx:40forum.dlang.org

I haven't used them yet though, so I'm unsure of how complete and 
such they are.


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