Is dlangui dead?

karabuta via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Oct 24 05:07:28 PDT 2015


On Friday, 23 October 2015 at 10:09:36 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Thursday, 22 October 2015 at 20:14:06 UTC, karabuta wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 17:58:07 UTC, tcak wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 20 October 2015 at 17:01:19 UTC, karabuta wrote:
>>>> I hope I am wrong, but dlangui seems to be abandoned for 
>>>> some time after all the hard work that went into it. I 
>>>> really like it since it was easy to setup and get things 
>>>> working.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> In fact, I consider it the best option.
>>>
>>> So, are you planning to fork it, and continue its development 
>>> as it was being developed by other developers?
>>
>> If only I knew how. Even then, I would not fork it but rather 
>> help out. Since making bindings to qt is a lot of work and 
>> unlikely to happen any time soon, I planned to go with dlangui.
>
> Have a look at:
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Libraries_and_Frameworks#GUI_Libraries
>
> GtkD is pretty stable I think. wxD should also be ok, though I 
> haven't tried it yet. Have a look at iup. The original is 
> supposed to be rock solid. Or try any other of the wrappers 
> listed there.
>
> At this stage, I'd recommend you to go with a wrapper. Native D 
> GUIs come and go and you might get stuck. With wrappers you 
> know what you get and if there's anything missing, you can 
> interface to the original framework yourself.
>
> GtkD has loads of the nice features that Gtk has, e.g. a source 
> code editor (with line numbers and syntax highlighting). You 
> can use Glade to build the interface (drag and drop): 
> https://glade.gnome.org/

Thanks for the insights.


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