The Current Status of DQt

[Etienne via Digitalmars-d]

On 2014-05-07 2:40 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 07/05/14 01:05, Etienne wrote:
>
>> I've just started using tkd and the memory usage is 3.4MB on windows for
>> a Hello World.
>>
>> It requires a lot of tcl/tk source files (900 files) and 2 dlls, but I
>> think a workaround can be found for them to be packed in an in-place
>> unpacker app by compiling on top of it (I'm looking into this right
>> now). It would be good to have an application that know what to trim out
>> too. The zipped size of a tkd application is 3 MB.
>>
>> It's very simple to use, it implements a lot of the D idioms and, most
>> of all, it's stable. I appreciate the effort very much!
>
> Have you tried DWT [1]? It has no dependencies except for the system
> libraries. Although, it will generate quite large binaries. But I don't
> think they'll grow that much when adding new functionality.
>
> [1] https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/dwt
>

Sweet, as I see it works and there's plenty of documentation about swt. 
Not much can beat a 2.6MB standalone application with a 2mb footprint!

It could use a dub.json file though, and the Color object gives me a 
memory error when I close the window.