On 2014-07-20 01:40, Mike wrote:
Interesting! How was the original port from SWT to DWT done? Was some
utility used?
It's manually ported. There was a try to create a tool [1] to
automatically port the code but that required a too big part of the Java
standard library to be ported as well.
On 2014-07-20 15:52, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
It's manually ported. There was a try to create a tool [1] to
automatically port the code but that required a too big part of the Java
standard library to be ported as well.
It might be worth investigation to try and do an automatic port again. I
On Sunday, 20 July 2014 at 19:33:35 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2014-07-20 15:52, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
It's manually ported. There was a try to create a tool [1] to
automatically port the code but that required a too big part
of the Java
standard library to be ported as well.
It might
On 21/07/14 03:00, Mike wrote:
Well, what's the GUI future of D? Does DWT have a role to play?
If we could make the process completely automatic (or nearly automatic)
to make it easy to keep up with SWT. And also create a GUI builder then
I think DWT is in a very good position.
--
/Jacob
On 2014-07-21 11:52, Mike wrote:
Or, is there a utility out there that can dump Java source to xml or
something more consumable by D? Then I might have some hope.
No, not that I know of. You might be able to find a Java grammar for
some parser generator that could be used. But, as I wrote
