the most D-ish GUI library

[Saša Janiška via Digitalmars-d]

Gerald <gerald.b.nunn at gmail.com> writes:

> I've never tried it, however having been down this road before (i.e.
> non-native widgets) with Java Swing I have no great desire to try
> something in a similar vein, so that ruled it out for me.

I know that there is/was DWT, but I was also not excited with it when
considering that option in the past.

> I'm using this now to build native Linux applications and for that
> it's a great choice. GTK is very mature and the GtkD wrapper has been
> around a long time. GtkD does a good job of wrapping the API in a way
> that just works and managing the widgets is integrated into the GC.
> The maintainer of GtkD is very responsive and does a great job keeping
> it up to date.

Thanks a lot for sharing - it looks as the GtkD is the most viable
option.

> Personally, I'm rather surprised there are not more Linux GUI GTK apps
> out there written in D considering how well it works.

Thank you for encouraging words, I'll try to do my best to contribute.

> I'll temper my enthusiasm though by saying I've never used it for
> cross-platform purposes, I'm only interested in writing native Linux
> apps at this point in time.

Frankly speaking that's also what I'm mostly interested in, especially
considering that it seems that both Windows and Mac are becoming hostile
platforms for 'non-playstor' apps, but if it can be done, why not.

Moreover, personally I do have neither access to Mac OS machine, nor do
I plan to buy one and Win XP was the last Windows license I had (tied to
my old notebook) and then it was mostly used under Virtualbox.

Now, I'll ask some GtkD related questions in another (GtkD) forum.


Sincerely,
Gour

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