On Sunday, 23 December 2012 at 21:03:40 UTC, Chris wrote:
There exist some GUI Toolkits for D, however, they are more or
less all based on bindings to native toolkits.
Is anyone working on or are there plans to develop a pure
Swing-like GUI Framework for D? While bindings have the
advantage of using native widgets, they tend to lack behind as
native widgets toolkits evolve and improve from version to
version. Also, the full use of native features is not always
easily accomplished (cf. SWT/JFace). A self-contained framework
(like Swing) that could be extended as needed by a small set of
native bindings - to implement os specific tasks - might be
worth looking into.
D would have the benefit of hindsight in avoiding mistakes made
in other GUI toolkits (such as Swing and SWT/JFace), and while
this may sound like reinventing the wheel, catering for
cross-platform bindings (Windows, Linux and OS X) is an endless
race, and might not be real cross-platform after all, because
either a whole platform is not (yet) catered for (cf. DWT), or
some features are not yet implemented for one platform or
another.
Programmers have to make practical decisions and from my own
experience I know that nothing is worse than betting on the
wrong horse, and at present I could not decide on a GUI toolkit
for D.
Your comments and advice are more than welcome.
did you remember c++ lesson with qt? no, qt is good framework but
in fact its better when used your custom styles(imho), native
look and feel sometimes is just crappy, and custom cross platform
look'n'feel for your professional oriented stuff is another plus,
it instantly becomes recognizable and users don't need to adapt
to version on another system.
sorry if it still unclear, i'm not against bindings to native ui
i'm just trying to say it is good for simple stuff only and only
when ur program targeting one system(again, imho).
so i think HTML/JS is the really(but not only, yes)
crossplatform(phones, set top boxes, pc's, just about
everywhere...), fast, cost effecient(the only tool you need to
start develop is text editor and browser with developer tools,
almost all if not any has such tools, there is lot of designers
and JS programmers, and so on) and modern UI, so you can take a
look at my recent project -
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]
though it still in alpha
sorry if that's not what you expect for gui framework stuff such
as gtk or qt.
