On 22/10/2014 10:07 p.m., ponce wrote:
On Wednesday, 22 October 2014 at 08:25:25 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
On 22/10/2014 9:13 p.m., ponce wrote:
I feel like we need a NG thread for D users to come and ask for new
libraries/bindings.
Express your needs! Here are mines.
1. A windowing library to replace some of SDL usage. Some programs like
audio plugins are usually done without any dependent dynamic library. It
could also make one less dependency on many small programs. I would
expect it to be based on Win32/X11/Cocoa.
I'm playing round (on and off) with DWC [0]. Think e.g. GLFW but only
for window / opengl context creation with a feature set identical on
all platforms.
Interesting, it looks like it could fit the bill.
My original goal is to just say stuff it, we may not agree about GUI
toolkits as a community but we should at the very least be able to agree
on how to create a window.
One library where we can put all our focus into for this one small goal.
But with big consequences.
Now to expand on what I would like:
1. Media libraries such as png/tiff/jpeg abstracted out into image
which would be our go to image library. With conversion support.
https://github.com/callumenator/imaged has image encoders, seems like
the most promising image library to me.
Including for 3d models, video files.
This could be AMAZING for D to have everything integrated for these
libs. Supporting mapping an image to a 3d model that is both freely
editable in code is just *drools*.
Abstractions for video files / images and 3D models are wildly different
though.
Yes but I wasn't meaning one abstraction fits all. Just where it makes
sense e.g. one for image, one for video.
