On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:44:17 -0800, Gour <g...@atmarama.net> wrote:
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:59:45 -0800
Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
Why not you lead the effort?
Lack of skills: both D and with GUI toolkits...let's hope someone more
capable will chime in.
Sincerely,
Gour
Gour, I'd love to talk to you more about GUI's. I am new to D, but I have
spent years working with GUI toolkits and studying their construction. My
company would like to move to D in the future but, among other things, the
lack of a first class GUI toolkit makes that a non-starter at the moment.
If such a thing existed my company would be very willing to jump ship. And
I have permission to use some limited company resources, mostly just web
hosting for the project right now, but ability to expand that latter if
the project shows progress.
I would also be up for leading the project, but a project of this size
would need lots of contributors. And there still needs to be serious
discussions about how to design such a project. Personally, my UI design
background tends away from traditional style toolkits like wxD and DWT,
and as such I would probably want to take the project in a different
direction than those. For example, all of our software at work is built on
WPF and I can say that I completely believe that WPF style UI toolkits are
the way of the future. Besides, why cover the same ground that those two
projects are already covering? I could list all the pro's and con's that
we've discovered in actual usage of WPF but I don't want to needlessly
clutter up this thread which has little to do with UI. :-)
You can find me on IRC as LightBender and the email account I list here is
actively monitored.
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Adam Wilson
Project Coordinator
The Horizon Project
http://www.thehorizonproject.org/
