Window creation, for phobos?

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 28 January 2015 at 07:48:42 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2015-01-27 23:04, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> I have dream! A dream, dream dream. A dream to see GUI's easy 
>> to use in
>> D! I must admit it will be hard, but it's time. Prime time I 
>> mean!
>
> Oh, it's time for GUI season again :).

I might be a little bored of web development. To the point of, I 
have an amazing idea to replace dlang.org entire ecosystem. 
Andrei already knows and likes the idea. I just can't be bothered 
to make it happen.

>> Now enough gabble.
>> I'm proposing to get Devisualization.Window PR'd into phobos.
>
> What exactly are you proposing, just to be able to get a window 
> or a full GUI library? Will this include some event 
> handler/event processing as well?

Just window creation with basic event handling.
Basically to spec of what Devisualization.Window's interfaces [0] 
are already.
Nothing special currently like touch. Although based upon current 
trends it should be in there.

>> This cannot happen right now. It's blocked on many fronts.
>> 1) Objective-C bridge. The most obvious one for OSX
>
> A bridge is a bad idea. D needs first class support for 
> Objective-C, i.e. extern (Objective-C). But perhaps that's what 
> you're referring to?

Thats what I was referring to.

>> 6) Cocoa bindings (easy not an issue, just dependent on the 
>> bridge)
>
> It depends on what you need. It's not really hard, just tedious 
> and time consuming. If you don't need a full set of Cocoa 
> bindings it's hopefully not a problem.
>
> BTW, DStep can generate bindings for Objective-C code.
>
>> Jacob Carlborg, how far off is the objective-c bridge?
>
> If you refer to extern (Objective-C) I'm redoing it for the 
> third time, now splitting it up in multiple pull requests. The 
> first pull request has been created [1], although it hasn't 
> received much review yet, at least not from any core developers 
> (that I know of).

I'll ping Andrei about it then.

>> Has any definitions to e.g. Cocoa been started either?
>
> Maybe. There's someone in the forums that has started to use 
> D/Objective-C. He has created bindings [2] for AppKit, 
> Foundation and WebKit. I have no idea about the quality of the 
> bindings and how complete they are.
>
> I also have a lot of bindings [3] for my old Objective-C 
> bridge. It should be possible to do some regular expression 
> search-and-replace to adapt them to D/Objective-C, if desired.
>
> As said above, DStep can generate bindings for Objective-C.
>
> [1] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4321
> [2] 
> https://github.com/DiveFramework/DiveFramework/tree/master/Interfaces
> [3] http://dsource.org/projects/dstep/browser/dstep

[0] 
https://github.com/Devisualization/window/blob/master/interfaces/devisualization/window/interfaces/window.d