Re: GtkD Coding Post #0115 - GKT/GIO Application - Open Files from the Command Line

2021-10-02 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 29 September 2021 at 16:06:49 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote: nice. Do you think you could make a GTK 4 tutorial eventually? Would be great if it uses libadwaita, could make linux phone mobile apps with it. Sorry, WebFreak001, but GTK4 is heading toward phone-centric-ness at the

GtkD Coding Post #0115 - GKT/GIO Application - Open Files from the Command Line

2021-09-24 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
Another new GtkD Coding blog post, this time it's about how to deal with the HANDLES_OPEN flag. You can find it here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2021/09/24/0115-gtk-gio-app-open-flag.html

GtkD Coding Post #0114 - GKT/GIO Application Command Line Arguments

2021-09-17 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
The third in the new series on GTK/GIO is up and ready for your perusal. Enjoy... and if some of you would be so kind as to leave comments... just so I know the system is working. Thanks, y'all!

Re: GtkD Coding Post #0113: GTK/GIO Application IDs and Signals

2021-09-14 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 13 September 2021 at 18:02:23 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: I think gtkD is our best hope atm. Would be really nice tho to have an integrated editor, like Glade but integrated in some IDE Uh-oh. Now I've got something to live up to. :)

Re: GtkD Coding Post #0113: GTK/GIO Application IDs and Signals

2021-09-14 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 13 September 2021 at 14:03:38 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: I am glad to see GtkDCoding back in action! :) Thanks, Dejan.

Re: Surprise - New Post on the GtkD Coding Blog

2021-09-10 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
Another new post, a continuation of the GTK/GIO Application discussion, can be found here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2021/09/10/0113-gtk-gio-application-ids-signals.html

GtkD Coding Post #0113: GTK/GIO Application IDs and Signals

2021-09-10 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
Continuation of the discussion from last week: https://gtkdcoding.com/2021/09/10/0113-gtk-gio-application-ids-signals.html

Re: Surprise - New Post on the GtkD Coding Blog

2021-09-08 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 7 September 2021 at 23:28:00 UTC, Imperatorn wrote: Welcome back!  Thanks, Imperatorn. BTW, if anyone has questions about any of the articles, GtkD Coding has a brand-spanking new commenting feature.

Re: Surprise - New Post on the GtkD Coding Blog

2021-09-06 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 6 September 2021 at 01:59:10 UTC, Joel wrote: Great to hear from you again. I've GUI programs that I use every day (a diary program, and a Bible program). Also sometimes use a GUI Money program. I really appreciated your help. Glad to be of help, Joel.

Re: Surprise - New Post on the GtkD Coding Blog

2021-09-05 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 4 September 2021 at 11:50:44 UTC, Mike Wey wrote: The GTK 4 version still needs work and isn't released yet. I currently don't have the time to work on it, but i hope i am able to resume working on it later this year. Just FYI, don't hurry back to it on my account. :) The only

Re: Surprise - New Post on the GtkD Coding Blog

2021-09-05 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 4 September 2021 at 11:50:44 UTC, Mike Wey wrote: The GTK 4 version still needs work and isn't released yet. I currently don't have the time to work on it, but i hope i am able to resume working on it later this year. Thanks for the update, Mike. I still haven't found the link

Re: Surprise - New Post on the GtkD Coding Blog

2021-09-04 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 3 September 2021 at 15:47:41 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: (Yes, GtkD Coding now has comments) And now it does again. Thanks for all the good wishes, guys. It's good to be back. On Friday, 3 September 2021 at 18:42:25 UTC, M.M. wrote: Happy to see you are back and well. I wonder where

Re: Surprise - New Post on the GtkD Coding Blog

2021-09-03 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 3 September 2021 at 15:47:41 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: (Yes, GtkD Coding now has comments) It did last time I looked, but somehow they've disappeared. I'm too tired to sort it out today, but I'll do my best to get this sorted out in the morning. Thanks for your patience.

Re: Surprise - New Post on the GtkD Coding Blog

2021-09-03 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 3 September 2021 at 16:10:39 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Friday, 3 September 2021 at 15:47:41 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: Has it really been 15 months since I last posted an article? Um, yes. Yes, it has. Good to see you back, Ron. Thanks, Mike.

Surprise - New Post on the GtkD Coding Blog

2021-09-03 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
Has it really been 15 months since I last posted an article? Um, yes. Yes, it has. I hope I haven't completely lost my good will here in the D-lang community. I'm feeling better now, the medication seems to be working, and I've got a new article... well, it was already in the works last year

Re: D IDE Dexed - v3.9.0

2020-05-09 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 April 2020 at 06:55:19 UTC, Basile B. wrote: Despite of the mini drama last year I've continued developping dexed. The changelog since last announce here is a bit long, check https://gitlab.com/basile.b/dexed/-/releases for more information and get the releases (linux only).

Re: Blog Post #0108: D-specific Stuff for GUI Programming IV

2020-04-25 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 25 April 2020 at 13:31:38 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote: * You're casting a `MyButton` to `MyButton*` in two places. That doesn't make sense. Cast to `void*` if you want to see the class reference as a pointer. * The text says "for() loop", but you're actually using `foreach` in the

Blog Post #0108: D-specific Stuff for GUI Programming IV

2020-04-25 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
More about arrays and how they can help with programming GUIs and it's right over here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2020/04/25/0108-snippets-iv-arrays.html

Re: Blog Post #0107: D-specific Stuff for GUI Programming III

2020-04-15 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 14 April 2020 at 19:37:14 UTC, Jan Hönig wrote: It is supposed to be the observer pattern. I have never worked with it and there seems to be some lengthy discussions about it. Is it a viable alternative? BR, Jan Hi Jan, Honestly, I don't know. I find APIs a bit... cryptic these

Blog Post #0107: D-specific Stuff for GUI Programming III

2020-04-14 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
Here's the link: https://gtkdcoding.com/2020/04/14/0107-dlang-ui-snippets-iii.html

Re: Blog Post #0106: D-specific Stuff for GUI Programming II

2020-04-03 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 3 April 2020 at 10:30:42 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote: On Friday, 3 April 2020 at 09:40:02 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: Today we pick apart a D-specific implementation of the Observer pattern in preparation for a GUI use-case we'll look at next time. You can find the article right here:

Blog Post #0106: D-specific Stuff for GUI Programming II

2020-04-03 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
Today we pick apart a D-specific implementation of the Observer pattern in preparation for a GUI use-case we'll look at next time. You can find the article right here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2020/04/03/0106-dlang-ui-snippets-ii.html

Re: Blog Post #0105: D-specific Stuff for GUI Programming

2020-03-23 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 23 March 2020 at 10:45:24 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On Monday, 23 March 2020 at 10:41:43 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: class DSingleton { immutable DSingleton instance = new DSingleton; } Should of course be `static`: class DSingleton { static immutable DSingleton instance

Blog Post #0105: D-specific Stuff for GUI Programming

2020-03-23 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
Today starts a new series I'm calling Snippets and it's about various D-specific stuff that may come in handy when building a GUI. You can find it right here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2020/03/23/0105-dlang-ui-snippets-i.html

Blog Post #0104: More About Widget Opacity

2020-03-12 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
Almost the ides of March and time for another GtkD blog post. Carrying on from last time, we look at some other aspects of widget opacity. Read all about it right here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2020/03/12/0104-widget-opacity-ii.html

Re: The Serpent Game Framework - Open Source!!

2020-03-02 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 29 February 2020 at 13:14:47 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote: Unfortunately, I’m too stupid to use Rust because the syntax literally offends my eyes. I don’t get it, and I never will. Rust is a fantastic language and as academic endeavours go, highly successful. Unfortunately, I’m

Blog Post #0103: Widget Opacity

2020-03-01 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
Welcome to March and another new blog post. This time, we'll talk about the opacity of widgets. As usual, just follow the link: https://gtkdcoding.com/2020/03/01/0103-widget-opacity.html

Blog Post #0102: Grid Column & Row Spacing

2020-02-19 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
An alternative Grid spacing mechanism is revealed in this, the 102nd GtkDcoding blog post. You can find it here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2020/02/19/0102-grid-spacing.html

Re: Blog Post #0101: The Grid, CSS, and GTK 4 Compliance

2020-02-09 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 9 February 2020 at 07:05:12 UTC, zoujiaqing wrote: Thank you for good articles :) My pleasure.

Blog Post #0101: The Grid, CSS, and GTK 4 Compliance

2020-02-08 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
I've been meaning to move these announcements into the Announce sub-forum for quite some time. But as each posting day came up, my brain would go on auto-pilot and I'd end up putting them in the Learn sub-forum instead. Today, I'm hoping all that will change. From now on, these announcements

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-08 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 23:28:00 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: Although you are right, the label lgpl makes my job harder. From a risk management perspective I understand if a team architect decides for any other language just to be 100% on the safe side. This is the point I want to stress.

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-07 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 7 February 2020 at 10:33:36 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote: These are exactly the things that were a little bit missing in the D world. Usage of it and advertisement of its usage. Indeed. If anyone has more ideas on how to get the word out for D, GtkD, and GtkDcoding, please jump

Re: FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-06 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 4 February 2020 at 22:23:33 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote: Well done! Bastiaan. On Tuesday, 4 February 2020 at 19:11:48 UTC, M.M. wrote: Congratulations! Thanks, guys. I'm hoping this will help brighten the spotlight on the D language. TIOBE (https://archive.ph/E3Xu7) has D

FeedSpot Recognizes the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-02-04 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
This morning I was contacted by Anuj Agarwal, the Founder of Feedspot, who told me http://GtkDcoding.com has been recognized as one of the top 100 blogs for programmers. It's currently listed as #71. Anuj said: "I would like to personally congratulate you as your blog gtkDcoding has been

Re: Prettify and Resync are now open source too

2020-01-18 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 19 May 2017 at 16:22:36 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote: * Prettify : a source code prettifier for D and other languages. Works like a charm. Thanks!

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-01-14 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 13 January 2020 at 13:17:53 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş wrote: I've just tried broadwayd with a very simple window (only a few widgets in it). Actually it is very straghtforward. After further pondering on the implications of this, I'm getting rather excited about where it could go.

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2020-01-13 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 13 January 2020 at 13:17:53 UTC, Ferhat Kurtulmuş wrote: I've just tried broadwayd with a very simple window (only a few widgets in it). Actually it is very straghtforward. Well, that's pretty cool, Ferhat.

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2019-11-22 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 November 2019 at 11:05:24 UTC, Antonio Corbi wrote: I suppose you know about Gtk's Broadway backend, it seems to do its job so a Gtk desktop-app can be a web-app in a very simple way: Yup, I know about it, but I strive for simplicity in the demos I post and talk about. It may

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2019-11-22 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 November 2019 at 01:33:22 UTC, mipri wrote: On Thursday, 21 November 2019 at 16:14:48 UTC, angel wrote: Github sponsorship is very good right now though, since Github matches the donations, but what I'd suggest is a "Desktop Applications in D" booklet similar to: I do have

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2019-11-22 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 November 2019 at 18:56:25 UTC, SashaGreat wrote: I think you have 2 problems: First and unfortunately this community is very very small, it'll be hard to make money over here, I think with Rust you could get more attraction. Yup, it's a small community. I've been keeping an

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2019-11-22 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 22 November 2019 at 00:17:33 UTC, Doc Andrew wrote: Ron, for what it's worth, I was doing some work using GtkAda recently, and your blog was one of the better references for just understanding the Gtk libs. I don't use Gtk all that often, but I appreciated the reference! Well,

Re: The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2019-11-22 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 November 2019 at 16:14:48 UTC, angel wrote: I think you should set up a "Donate" page on your site, so that an occasional visitor can say thank you. Hi angel, I actually do have a link at the bottom of every post. Just look for the big red heart. :)

The Future of the GtkDcoding Blog

2019-11-19 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
In 2006, I started a blog on PHP-GTK 2.x that ran for 40 posts before the blog site I was using closed its door. By then, I was caught up in writing Corkboard, the first full-featured application I'd written for my own amusement in nearly 20 years, and so I just let it slip away. Last year,

Re: Release D 2.089.0

2019-11-07 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 6 November 2019 at 14:09:35 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Are you putting libs in the compiler's directory tree? Or are you editing sc.ini/dmd.conf? You really shouldn't be doing the former. I follow the steps outlined here:

Re: Release D 2.089.0

2019-11-06 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 3 November 2019 at 13:35:36 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: Glad to announce D 2.089.0... Hi Martin, On the one hand, it's nice to get a shiny, new version (thanks to all involved), but is there any way the installer can be more selective about what it tosses out so I don't have to

Re: Prepping for Patreon...

2019-10-23 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 21 October 2019 at 08:06:49 UTC, aberba wrote: On Thursday, 17 October 2019 at 21:25:20 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: On Thursday, 17 October 2019 at 19:46:12 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: Make a PR to https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/#Contributing-back-with-money and add yourself in the

Re: D at 20: Hits and Misses, and what I learned along the way Oct 19

2019-10-18 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 24 September 2019 at 23:27:44 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I know. The same thing happened at DConf 2018, where the first morning's sessions were all lost. Does this fall under the category of "things I learned the hard way?" :)

Re: Prepping for Patreon...

2019-10-17 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 17 October 2019 at 19:46:12 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: Make a PR to https://p0nce.github.io/d-idioms/#Contributing-back-with-money and add yourself in the Patreon list (please _read_ the readme.md before contributing) Thanks for the tip, Guillaume.

Re: Prepping for Patreon...

2019-10-17 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 17 October 2019 at 15:42:10 UTC, bauss wrote: Should probably ask people that you know might consider subscribing to your Patreon. I thought you might be one candidate, bauss. I know we've discussed GtkD on at least one occasion on this forum. As for where to find other people

Prepping for Patreon...

2019-10-17 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi y'all, I've been considering starting a Patreon account and to that end, I'm mulling over the types of perks to offer at various levels. Any suggestions?

Re: Mecca available on macOS

2019-08-07 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 7 August 2019 at 11:01:55 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I would like to announce that I've ported Mecca [1] to macOS. [1] https://github.com/weka-io/mecca I'm not familiar with Mecca. What is a Container/reactor library?

Re: What's Up on Reddit?

2019-07-13 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 13 July 2019 at 01:34:38 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Friday, 12 July 2019 at 17:27:36 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: Okay, thanks, guys. That worked. Where I was trying to post was r/dlang instead of r/d_language. Is r/dlang a defunct group? The admin of it has never responded to our

Re: What's Up on Reddit?

2019-07-12 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 12 July 2019 at 11:49:26 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: This is the official D twitter group: https://www.reddit.com/r/d_language/ I'm an admin and as far as I'm aware, you don't need permission to post. On Friday, 12 July 2019 at 14:34:04 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: You could also post

What's Up on Reddit?

2019-07-12 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
I decided to take matheus' (and others') advice and post the gtkDcoding face-lift announcement on Reddit, but for some reason, I have to get permission to post to the dlang group? I was sure I'd done it before. Anyway, I sent the required request a few days ago, but I'm still not allowed to

Re: gtkDcoding Facelift Launch

2019-07-11 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 11 July 2019 at 02:38:47 UTC, dangbinghoo wrote: I found that the `next link` in Page 24 made a mistake: "0025-creating-and-using-a-linkbutton.html" should be || \/ "0025-creating-and-using-a-linkButton.html" binghoo dang

Re: gtkDcoding Facelift Launch

2019-07-10 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 9 July 2019 at 20:16:47 UTC, Mike Wey wrote: On 09-07-2019 11:53, Ron Tarrant wrote: Last week, gtkDcoding saw its 50th regularly-scheduled post. Today marks the launch of stage two of the facelift we've been working toward for the last month. The new features are: Looks great,

Re: gtkDcoding Facelift Launch

2019-07-10 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 9 July 2019 at 09:53:29 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: There will likely be minor tweaks happening over the next few weeks, but this is the big roll-out. I hope you all like it. Maybe not so minor, but I think it's an important addition... If you look in the upper-right corner of the

Re: gtkDcoding Facelift Launch

2019-07-09 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 9 July 2019 at 12:16:30 UTC, Greatsam4sure wrote: Thanks a million, times. I will like a tutorial also on D standard library if you have the time. You're welcome. That's an good suggestion, but it may take me a while to get there (so many topics piling up as it is). But in the

Re: gtkDcoding Facelift Launch

2019-07-09 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 9 July 2019 at 10:06:23 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Excellent stuff. Thanks for putting in the effort on this, it is well worth it. Thanks, Russel. And thanks for the suggestion of putting in previous/next links. Don't know why I didn't think of that one myself.

gtkDcoding Facelift Launch

2019-07-09 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
Last week, gtkDcoding saw its 50th regularly-scheduled post. Today marks the launch of stage two of the facelift we've been working toward for the last month. The new features are: - syntax highlighting for all code snippets, - screenshots for every example, and - updated color-coding to more

Re: GtkD 3.9.0, A GTK+ D binding.

2019-05-30 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 29 May 2019 at 20:30:03 UTC, Mike Wey wrote: GtkD is a D binding and OO wrapper of Gtk+ and is released on the LGPL license. At this point it feels long overdue, but finally there is an GtkD release that is updated for the latest GTK+ libraries. So... This is compliant with

Re: D GUI Framework (responsive grid teaser)

2019-05-25 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 23 May 2019 at 00:34:42 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: And this isn't just for mobile apps; even the pervasive desktop browser nowadays seems bent on eating up as much CPU, memory, and disk as physically possible This has been going on ever since the Amiga 1000, Atari 1040ST, and the

Re: GtkD Blog Post #0005 Now Live

2019-03-22 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 March 2019 at 13:22:49 UTC, number wrote: Thank you for these tutorials! Again, thanks for reading, number. And to anyone else also reading: Please drop a line here or on Mike Wey's https://forum.gtkd.org to let me know you're following along. I've been so busy working on

Re: GtkD Blog Post #0005 Now Live

2019-03-22 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 March 2019 at 13:22:49 UTC, number wrote: On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 at 21:00:10 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: Another blog post available at http://gtkdcoding.com Enjoy! Thank you for these tutorials! Just want to mention that the code on the page (0005) is not in sync with

Re: gtkDcoding Blog Post #0007 Now Live

2019-03-22 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 March 2019 at 15:59:29 UTC, number wrote: The 0007 github code doesn't compile. button_002_05_release.d(40): Error: undefined identifier buttonCaption buttonCaption is now defined (and unused) in the button class but still used in the window class and the button constructor

Re: gtkDcoding Blog Post #0007 Now Live

2019-03-22 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 March 2019 at 15:59:29 UTC, number wrote: The 0007 github code doesn't compile. button_002_05_release.d(40): Error: undefined identifier buttonCaption buttonCaption is now defined (and unused) in the button class but still used in the window class and the button constructor

Re: The D Programming Language has been accepted as a GSoC 2019 organization

2019-03-08 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 26 February 2019 at 22:34:45 UTC, Seb wrote: The D Language Language got accepted as a Google Summer of Code organization! That's pretty darned cool!

Re: gtkDcoding Blog: Post #0009 - Boxes

2019-02-27 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 13 February 2019 at 02:42:07 UTC, DanielG wrote: Why not just make a single thread, "gtkDecoding Blog updates", and always append to it? It will bump the topic back up to the top whenever you add something. Sounds sane enough. :)

gtkDcoding Blog: Post #0009 - Boxes

2019-02-12 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
Another Tuesday, another blog post: http://gtkdcoding.com/2019/02/12/0009-boxes.html And I also tossed one up there on Sunday after discovering that the GTK Inspector works on Windows 10, too: http://gtkdcoding.com/2019/02/10/x0001-gtkdcoding-blog-extra-the-inspector.html And if you missed

Re: gtkDcoding Blog Post #0007 Now Live

2019-02-08 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 6 February 2019 at 19:09:57 UTC, Antonio Corbi wrote: The gnome project maintains a 'How Do I do this...' page, it's almost gtk and C related but (thank's to the wonderful binding from Mike Wey) the 'mental mapping' from C->D + gtk->gtkd is very straightforward:

Blog Post #0008 Callbacks

2019-02-08 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
Fellow programmers: 'Tis that day of the week again and nigh on time to post to the gtkDcoding blog once more. This time, I take a closer look at callbacks. And thanks to WebFreak001, I'm actually providing a link (Take advantage! Next time I might forget the link):

Re: gtkDcoding Blog Post #0007 Now Live

2019-02-08 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 6 February 2019 at 16:12:25 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote: the link would have been nice :) http://gtkdcoding.com/2019/02/05/0007-button_release.html Senior moment. And I'm so young, too. (sigh)

Re: GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-02-06 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 6 February 2019 at 16:53:49 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: On Saturday, 2 February 2019 at 17:01:28 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: I ran some more tests with dub and successfully compiled/ran some of my GtkD example code. (Yay!) At some point, I guess I'd better write this up and post it.

Re: GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-02-06 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 2 February 2019 at 17:01:28 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: It's one of the reasons I'm sticking with dmd for now. This morning, after creating the file: C:\ProgramData\dub\settings.json with contents: { "defaultArchitecture": "x86_64", "defaultCompiler": "ldc"

Re: GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-02-02 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 1 February 2019 at 07:43:23 UTC, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote: But no one should ever need to modify their dmd installation, in order to use gtkd. Too true. It's one of the reasons I'm sticking with dmd for now. I followed a simple set of instructions to get an environment set

Re: GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-01-31 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 21:21:24 UTC, Mike Wey wrote: This is whats going on: https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15418 To work around this you can either build things with "--arch=x86mscoff" or tell dub not to build the debug version with "--build=plain". Ah! Thanks, Mike.

Re: GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-01-31 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 21:53:27 UTC, sanjayss wrote: Some simple screenshots would be nice to see I thought about it, but then realized that even though it would add visual appeal, readers might be more inclined to actually follow along at home if the only visual they get is the

Re: GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-01-31 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 20:07:15 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: It's Optlink being stupid as always. If you want to figure out what's wrong you can invoke Dub with the "--verbose" flag to have it print the commands it's running, i.e. how it's invoking the compiler and the linker. You

Re: GtkD Blog Post #0005 Now Live

2019-01-30 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 30 January 2019 at 09:04:35 UTC, M.M. wrote: On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 at 21:00:10 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: Another blog post available at http://gtkdcoding.com Enjoy! PS: And yeah, I'll get around to dubbing at some point. Perhaps after I get the docs parser finished. Do

Re: GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-01-30 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 at 23:09:57 UTC, Christian Köstlin wrote: I was surprised how simple it is nowadays even in osx. Okay, there's definitely something odd going on with my set up. I followed your directions to the letter and OPTLINK barfed. Here is the output from my first try to

Re: GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-01-30 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 26 January 2019 at 16:53:18 UTC, Antonio Corbi wrote: [1] https://sites.google.com/site/gtkdtutorial/ [2] http://britseyeview.com/software/articles/gsgtkd.html [3] https://gitlab.com/csoriano/GtkDApp Took a look this morning. I'd come across the Brit's Eye View articles, but not

Re: GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-01-29 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 at 21:13:17 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote: hey it's easy, you can also use SDL! :p dub.sdl: name "my-awesome-gtk-app" dependency "gtk-d" version="~>3.8.5" ... and that's it already actually. It will compile everything in the "source" folder and add the dependencies

Re: GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-01-29 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 26 January 2019 at 16:53:18 UTC, Antonio Corbi wrote: On Friday, 25 January 2019 at 21:16:59 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: When I started using Gtkd I gathered several tutorials[1][2] (they are old) and more recently found this project[3] from Carlos Soriano which covers meson +

GtkD Blog Post #0005 Now Live

2019-01-29 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
Another blog post available at http://gtkdcoding.com Enjoy! PS: And yeah, I'll get around to dubbing at some point. Perhaps after I get the docs parser finished.

Re: GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-01-29 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
Thanks for all the kind words, guys. Yeah, dub is a sticking point for me and I'm gonna have to get past it. I just have so much on my plate ATM that I don't wanna take the time to dig into it again for fear of falling behind on something else. But I will get to it at some point.

Re: GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-01-29 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 25 January 2019 at 22:17:06 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote: I think dub is a lot more beginner friendly and easier to setup + users will probably want to add some dependencies in the future of their app. LOL! Not my experience with dub, but I take your point. I haven't actually gone back

GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-01-25 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
Hi y'all, As of January 11, 2019, http://gtkdcoding.com is up. It's a blog, it's a github page, it's simple examples of how to use GtkD for all that GUI stuff. My approach is to lay out a firm foundation for both imperative and object-oriented paradigms, then build from there, taking

Re: GtkD Blog Now Up and Running

2019-01-25 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
PS: And let me know if you find any inaccuracies or if something isn't clear.

Re: D-lighted, I'm Sure

2019-01-20 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 22:15:50 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: It looks like the best one is the "Getting Started" page on code.dlang.org: https://dub.pm/getting_started Thanks, Paul. I'll take a look.

Re: D-lighted, I'm Sure

2019-01-19 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 20:30:25 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Regarding Dub. [stuff deleted] [1] https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc [2] https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#import_expressions [3] https://travis-ci.com/ [4] https://blog.travis-ci.com/2018-10-11-windows-early-release

Re: D-lighted, I'm Sure

2019-01-19 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 20:12:04 UTC, Jon Degenhardt wrote: Nicely done. Very enjoyable, thanks for publishing this! Thanks, Jon. Glad you enjoyed it.

Re: D-lighted, I'm Sure

2019-01-19 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 18:48:00 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Very nice indeed! Welcome aboard, Ron! Thanks, H.S. I used to remember most of the opcodes by heart... though nowadays that memory has mostly faded away. I used to write 6502 in my head while riding my bike to school, then

Re: D-lighted, I'm Sure

2019-01-19 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 19:55:34 UTC, Meta wrote: Great read Ron. Can I ask which town in Newfoundland it was where you stayed back in 1985? Sure. I was in St. Lawrence on the Burin Peninsula. Do you know it?

Re: D-lighted, I'm Sure

2019-01-19 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 18:59:59 UTC, JN wrote: Just add a line in your dub.json file and you have the library. Need to upgrade to newer version? Just change the version in dub.json file. Need to download the problem from scratch? No problem, dub can use the json file to download all

Re: D-lighted, I'm Sure

2019-01-19 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 17:06:54 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I had to use my parents' TV in the living room :) And I was made to learn typing before I could play games on it, so cruel... LOL! (Ahem) I feel your pain, sir.

Re: D-lighted, I'm Sure

2019-01-18 Thread Ron Tarrant via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 15:08:48 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Nice read! And welcome to Ron! I too, started with BASIC, but on a Commodore 64 :) -Steve Thanks, Steve. Just to set the record straight, I only had access to that Coleco Adam for the few weeks I was in that