On Thursday, 29 January 2015 at 11:17:32 UTC, Mike wrote:
On Tuesday, 27 January 2015 at 22:05:02 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
I have dream! A dream, dream dream. A dream to see GUI's easy
to use in D! I must admit it will be hard, but it's time.
Prime time I mean!
Now enough gabble.
I'm proposing to get Devisualization.Window PR'd into phobos.
I would love to see some facilities in D for GUI development,
but I'm not sure about window creation. Is the concept of a
*window* even that platform agnostic? I thought that was
mostly a desktop metaphor.
There are a few fundamental packages related to this domain
that I think would fit nicely into Phobos, and could
potentially plant a few seeds in this community that might spur
exponential growth.
1. Color package
ae graphics module has that, in a mostly untyped way. I like that.
2. 2d/3d geometry package
There are many, and they are already decoupled from images. I
don't see why it's related.
3. Frame buffer package (Does OpenGL/DirectX make this
obsolete?)
ae graphics module has a rich "CPU frame-buffer" package. I
haven't seen a better proposal, only things that rely on one
data-type or use virtual functions.
4. Imaging package
It's trivial to write image loaders against ae graphics module.
Also font rasterizers, image resamplers, etc.
5. Vector graphics package
6. SVG package
I'd _love_ to have those too.
But, again, ae graphics module show us how to write anti-aliased
drawing primitive already (line, circle, ellipses...). Writing a
vector renderer is a matter of extending these capabilities.
7. Perhaps some kind of an input package
This belong to a windowing library and should be decoupled from
the imaging library as far as possible.
You can't have "windowing library X require image abstraction Y".
