Favorite GUI library?

rikki cattermole rikki at cattermole.co.nz
Mon Apr 23 06:39:32 UTC 2018


On 23/04/2018 6:12 PM, TheGag96 wrote:
> Heya guys. For my projects that use a GUI library, I've tried both tkd 
> and DlangUI. Both I feel have their drawbacks, and I'd like to know if 
> any of you are using anything you find better. In my case, my ideal 
> choice would be:
> 
> - Nice bindings/API, friendly to idiomatic D
> - Cross platform
> - Can compile to a standalone binary (no shared libraries or extra files)
> - Reasonably efficient
> - Support for a good amount of well-working widgets
> 
> Although quite a cool library, my biggest issue with DlangUI was that it 
> was a little mind-bending at times to keep track of multiple widgets 
> that view/modify the same data without screwing things up. I saw QtE5 
> recently and have been thinking about trying it out.
> 
> What do you all recommend? Thanks!

Just an FYI, when windowing is done properly there will be extra shared 
libraries. You can't get away from it without a lot of duplication of 
code that other libraries have developed (and is standard).


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