On Wednesday, 12 February 2014 at 17:21:52 UTC, Malkierian wrote:
not to mention C++ specific on Windows
They aren't really C++ specific, you can use them from a lot of languages, including C and D.
So anyway, my question is, does D have the capability of interfacing with Linux and Mac such that those functions are accessible
Not those specific functions, since they are part of Windows. Similar functions on Linux would be... I think you'd have to read the /proc directory for directories with numeric names, then inside there, you can read a file called cmdline to get the process name (sort of, it is the command line used to launch it) and other stuff. The name of the directory is the process id.
To get the currently focused window on linux, you could do it by asking the X server. The functions XGetInputFocus or fetching the _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW atom should give a usable window id. Tying window IDs to process IDs is a bit harder, you might be able to get it by looking for a _NET_WM_PID atom... which is opt-in by the application, I don't think the X server necessarily knows the pid of the owner (indeed, the owner might be running on a different computer anyway).
So yeah, kinda in depth low level stuff. I don't know if there's any library to help with this.
I have no idea about Mac (or even other unixes for that matter). , and/or would I be better of working in C++ for this
particular venture?
Linux is a pain in the ass to program for in any language... but if you can do it in C or C++, you can mostly just to the same thing in D. Might have to copy/paste function prototypes though.
