On Saturday, 31 August 2013 at 23:03:48 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic
wrote:
On 9/1/13, Flamaros <[email protected]> wrote:
I am a Windows user, but I don't understand why others
platforms are forgotten.
I think it's because win32 is the easiest to create a native
library
for, since the standard API functions for creating windows and
widgets
has been the same for many years. On OSX you probably have to
interact
with Objective-C code, which IIRC is hard to do from D without
some
extra language support (there's some pull request for it).
And on Posix you basically don't have a standard API, so
front-end
libraries typically use GTK or Qt as the backend.
Yep, I know that for linux it's hard to use X11 or XCB direcly.
Today linux window manager (unity, KDE) seems want migrate form
gtk to QML that can interact efficiently with modern window
compositors (wayland, Mir).
Old GUI systems are to different on platforms that why we made
the choice of doing something like QML which is based on a 3D
renderer.
If I am not wrong that so much hard to wrap native GUI systems in
a portable way than QtWidgets is manually written to mimic native
GUI.
