On 30 January 2015 at 00:47, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Thursday, 29 January 2015 at 08:45:23 UTC, Manu wrote: >> >> I'm not convinced that D needs a custom GUI library though. That's a >> behemoth effort. > > > Indeed, but I find there's still quite a bit of value in even a small > wrapper that just pops up a window and lets you do the basic drawing and > input. My simpledisplay.d sets a low bar like that and I find it to be of > enormous use. > > (I'll probably be writing about it in the this week in D series very soon.)
I didn't realise that this proposal was limited to appearing a single window on screen. There are progressions form that though, visibility, window flags, positioning it, filling it with pixels... we now need to invent a bitmap, or expose opengl for rendering to it. Where does it end? If my requirements are really so simple that I just need to appear a window and put pixels on it, I have no problem writing portable code for that. It's only a few lines per platform.
