Lutger wrote:
Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
watching wrote:
what a pityful sate d is in. this probably shows, that you can't use d
for anything serious and by the time you guys are through discussing
things, people will be using something different for good. too bad
I really don't think so, the very purpose of this IDE I'm developing is
to make D easier to use and develop large scale projects with.
The only thing still in the way of using D with graphical applications
right now is the lack of proper bindings to cross-platform GUI toolkits
for D2.
Out of curiosity, did you consider GtkD and QtD?
Have you thought about how to do plugins / extensions already? Of all the
best software I'm using it seems a large part comes from the extensions.
I wish you all the best with this project, great to see something started
again on this front.
I did consider a gtk/gdk approach but not Qt since I never used that
API. However, wxWidgets abstracts both the entire native widgets and
drawing tookits and extends them quite a lot, especially with wxAUI,
that therefore seemed like the best road.
I have a basic draft for plugins already. I made a base Component class
template to define abstract factories for the different component types
such as Language, Compiler, Linker, Librarian and Plugin which each
define a specific interface.
It's a really simple API but it works great, components will be able to
register observers at different points in the IDE to implement their
functionalities.
Jeremie
