Hello tim,
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:25:39 +1300, Stewart Gordon
<[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?GuiLibraries
This page gives the standard D GUI library as being DWT, which is now
a "Tango based port of SWT v3.4 GUI Library + JFace and more".
Note "Tango based". How can it be the standard D GUI library when it
isn't compatible with standard D, i.e. D with Phobos?
Stewart.
Now that you brought the subject up I would just like to add my
opinion on something which I've been meaning to say for a long time.
I really disagree with the way that page describes the various
options. It says standard d gui library and other d gui libraries.
swt has the word standard in it's name but I dont see why dwt should
be THE standard. It's brainwashing people into think that dwt is the
best thing around.
Well, the reason dwt has adopted the "standard" title kind of goes back to
the days when we were looking to have a complete GUI to promote D; there
just wasn't much offering in that area before. DWT development was encouraged
back then by Walter, and, as you can see, he even made a newsgroup entry
for it.
DWT might not be the best thing around, but I don't think it's not going
too far to say that it is the most comprehensive GUI developed /in/ D so
far.
As time goes on, this may change (which can only be a good thing as options
improve) as more projects arrive for more platforms.
Personally, I think we're at a point in D's life where we don't need to call
it standard. Maybe it would be better to have a newsgroup called "GUI" instead.
I'm not sure.
-JJR
