Re: How to build GUI-based applications in D ?

[JamesD via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 at 09:31:32 UTC, ashit wrote:

what is the simplest library to create gui applications in D?
i want to create gui applications but couldnt configure the 
tools so far.

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I recommend you check out the D widget toolkit (DWT).
DWT is a library for creating cross-platform GUI applications.
It's a port of the SWT Java library from Eclipse.

The key advantages of DWT are;

1. Extensive API and examples from SWT that can be searched with 
your Browser

2. Statically linked (don't need an external DLL)
3. Easy to learn and use

Here is the dub package for DWT:
https://code.dlang.org/packages/dwtlib

See more features in the DWT forum:
https://forum.dlang.org/group/dwt

Here are the various GUIs for the D language:
https://wiki.dlang.org/GUI_Libraries

Re: How to continue after the book?

[JamesD via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 06:39:17 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:

On Wednesday, 29 March 2017 at 05:53:22 UTC, I Lindström wrote:
Thanks all. Your answers gave me a lot more confidence in 
starting. What I've always found to be the hardest is to know 
what you can do, and that's what I use books for. "Can" in the 
sense of what's possible and how. These forums and the docs on 
the site have given me a pretty decent idea about how to 
proceed and do things. It's not the work itself that I dread, 
but more the "can I find out how to do something", but some of 
your answers touched on this and I will take heed.


A lot to learn. You can expect me to come pester you guys if I 
hit a snag. Heh.


plus IRC chat if you get stuck.


All great tips above!

I have some rather simple examples here:
https://github.com/jasc2v8/dwt-support

I had created a vhd copy program in AutoIt, and set a goal to 
convert to D.


The result is a much better utility, as well as learning the D 
language from the very basics to a useful gui app.