Re: Packaging and Distributing Dlang Applications with GtkD Dependency?
On Friday, 27 September 2019 at 12:42:56 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: For macOS you should distribute a GUI application for end users as an application bundle [1]. That's basically a directory containing a specific structure. Any dependencies and resources like libraries (GTK), images and so on should be bundled inside the application bundle. Then package the application bundle inside an archive, ideally a Disk Image (DMG) [2]. The application would be completely self contained and the user can install it by dragging it to the Application directory. There might be some specific documentation how to bundle a GTK application on macOS. I found this [3], don't know if it's good or not. Ideally the application should be distributed on the Mac App Store. But that requires a developer account that costs money. It also has some restrictions that distribution outside of the Mac App Store doesn't have. If you cannot distribute using the Mac App Store the next best thing is to notarize the application (also requires a paid developer account, as far as I can see) before distributing it. Otherwise the user will get a dialog complaining that the application is from an unknown developer and the user need to explicitly go into System Preferences to allow it. [1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/CoreFoundation/Conceptual/CFBundles/BundleTypes/BundleTypes.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/1123i-CH101-SW1 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Disk_Image [3] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk-mac-bundler -- /Jacob Carlborg Excellent, Jacob. Thanks for all that.
Blog Post #74: Cairo IX - Doodle a Noodle
Because at this point we've covered almost every widget GtkD has to offer, today we're taking a departure from that to do something non-standard. Nodes-n-noodles are becoming more popular as UI elements, so this is the beginnings of how we can get this paradigm working in GtkD. You can find part one here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/09/27/0074-cairo-doodle-a-noodle.html
Re: Packaging and Distributing Dlang Applications with GtkD Dependency?
On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 10:10:20 UTC, bioinfornatics wrote: I prefer to use meson a builder tool (same category tool as Make, CMake ...) doc: https://mesonbuild.com/Dlang-module.html Is better as it ease the packaging for fedora, debian, ubuntu and so on ... This is good to know. Thank you, bioinfornatics.
Re: Packaging and Distributing Dlang Applications with GtkD Dependency?
On Thursday, 26 September 2019 at 16:30:39 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: Dub is a tool for developers, I understand your requirements that you want target end customers of your applications. Therefore dub is the wrong tool for this job. To be more precise, gtkd is a wrapper for GTK. Gtkd is not interesting in this context, but the dependency on gtk. On windows you have the possibility to either publish your application with GTK dlls or to run gtk setup routine as part of your application setup routine or just say in your readme that the customer needs to run GTK setup on there own. On posix (linus, macos) of course you can also say in your readme that the customer should run apt-get ... to install gtk (here I do not have much knowledge on packaging). Kind regards Andre Excellent. That's exactly what I needed to know, Andre. Thanks very much.
Re: Looking for a Simple Doubly Linked List Implementation
On Monday, 23 September 2019 at 22:40:41 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: So, what was it then? Append to an array, sort it, and be happy? :) Ali Hi, Ali, It turns out that the GTK Notebook has its own built-in mechanism for tracking tabs. Two things got me going down the wrong road on this: 1) the fact that Notebook.appendPage() returns an ever-increasing index each time a page is added, and 2) trying to quit caffeine. I chased my tail for a full week (seriously: a full week!) trying to come up with a way to track tabs. Then I got tired of doing face-plants on my desk, took up coffee again, and solved it in three hours. The moral of the story is: don't quit coffee until you have nothing left to contribute to this world. :)
Re: Packaging and Distributing Dlang Applications with GtkD Dependency?
On Wednesday, 25 September 2019 at 13:52:48 UTC, bioinfornatics wrote: I think I misunderstood your need but are lo looking for dub tool with its repository https://code.dlang.org/ I don't think so, but I could be wrong. I tried reading up on dub, but got lost in the docs, so I really don't understand what all it can do.
Re: Packaging and Distributing Dlang Applications with GtkD Dependency?
On Wednesday, 25 September 2019 at 12:32:58 UTC, a11e99z wrote: so u need installers/installation program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_installation_software well, a long-long time ago I used InstallShield & Wix Toolset for Windows only. I'll check those out. Thanks.
Re: Packaging and Distributing Dlang Applications with GtkD Dependency?
On Wednesday, 25 September 2019 at 11:50:58 UTC, a11e99z wrote: On Wednesday, 25 September 2019 at 11:46:04 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: Hi y'all, I've been Googling how to do this, but coming up with nothing definitive. Are there any articles for how to do this for: Windows? Linux? other UNIX-alike OSs? UPX? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPX https://linux.die.net/man/1/upx Thanks for the reply, alle99z. Sorry for my badly-phrased question, I think I need to clarify... What I'm looking for is a system for bundling dlang apps and their dependencies for distribution to end users. Hopefully, this bundler will: - install the app in an appropriate place (like C:\Program Files\, - install libraries/dependencies (such as GtkD) also in an appropriate place, - make any modifications to the system PATH that may be necessary for the app to run, and - handle any other roadblocks that will keep the user from using the app. Whether this is an actual pre-existing application bundler or just a list of instructions I can follow so I can end up with a distributable one-click-does-it-all (on Windows, at least) package. Similarly, on Linux or other UNIX-alikes, a breakdown of how to use apt or something similar to do the same so the user can (for instance) just do: apt-get to install.
Packaging and Distributing Dlang Applications with GtkD Dependency?
Hi y'all, I've been Googling how to do this, but coming up with nothing definitive. Are there any articles for how to do this for: Windows? Linux? other UNIX-alike OSs?
Blog Post #73: The Frame, Part II
Today we cover how to decorate the Frame... or UN-decorate it. Frames can be turned off or dressed up with CSS. To find out more, follow this link: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/09/24/0073-frame-part-ii.html
Re: Looking for a Simple Doubly Linked List Implementation
Well, it turns out, I didn't need a linked list, doubly or otherwise. That's what happens when a person quits coffee for a week: complete brain chaos. For a full week, I banged on this, trying to work out a scheme whereby I could track GTK Notebook tabs with a doubly-linked list, an array, and any other mechanism that came to mind. That was my caffeine-free week of getting absolutely nothing done. (Twice, I actually forgot my name.) This morning, I had a coffee, realized I was not just on the wrong track, but in the wrong train station and within 45 minutes, I had eight Notebook demos working perfectly. Let this serve as a warning, no matter how much you may think you need to go off the caffeine, it's just not worth it.
Re: Looking for a Simple Doubly Linked List Implementation
Sorry. I posted the wrong file. This is the one that works:
```
import std.stdio;
import std.conv;
class TabList
{
private:
Tab _head;
int _lastUniqueID = 0;
string labelText;
this()
{
append();
}
void append()
{
string labelText = "Tab " ~ _lastUniqueID.to!string();
Tab current;
if(_head is null)
{
_head = new Tab(_lastUniqueID, labelText);
_head.setPrev(null);
_head.setNext(null);
}
else
{
current = _head;
//writeln("before the while loop");
//current.showThings();
while(current.getNext() !is null)
{
// writeln("in the while loop...");
// current.showThings();
// if(current.getPrev() !is null)
// {
// writeln("prev = ",
current.getPrev().getTabID());
// }
// else
// {
// writeln("prev = null");
// }
current = current.getNext();
}
//writeln("out of the while loop\n");
Tab tab = new Tab(_lastUniqueID, labelText);
current.setNext(tab);
tab.setPrev(current);
}
_lastUniqueID++;
} // append()
Tab getHead()
{
return(_head);
} // getHead()
void removeTab(int uniqueID)
{
// get the head
Tab current = _head;
// walk the list to find the Tab with the uniqueID
while(current.getNext() !is null)
{
// if the uniqueID matches the head's ID
if(current.getTabID() is uniqueID)
{
// destroy the Tab object
current.destroy(uniqueID);
break;
}
// go to the next Tab
current = current.getNext();
}
} // removeTab()
} // class TabList
class Tab
{
private:
int _tabID;
string _label;
Tab _prev = null, _next = null;
public:
this(int uniqueID, string labelText)
{
_tabID = uniqueID;
_label = labelText;
} // this()
void showThings()
{
writeln("Tab = ", getTabID());
if(getPrev() !is null)
{
writeln("Tab.prev = ", getPrev().getTabID());
}
else
{
writeln("Tab.prev is null");
}
if(getNext() !is null)
{
writeln("Tab.next = ", getNext().getTabID());
}
else
{
writeln("Tab.next = null");
}
} // showThings()
void destroy(int id)
{
if(_tabID is id)
{
// destroy the TextView
// destroy the Label
_prev.setNext(_next);
_next.setPrev(_prev);
}
} // destroy()
Tab getNext()
{
return(_next);
} // getNext()
Tab getPrev()
{
return(_prev);
} // getPrev()
int getTabID()
{
return(_tabID);
} // getTabID()
void setNext(Tab tab)
{
_next = tab;
} // setNext()
void setPrev(Tab tab)
{
_prev = tab;
} // setPrev()
} // class Tab
void main(string[] args)
{
TabList tabList;
tabList = new TabList();
for(int i = 0; i < 7; i++)
{
// writeln("building Tab #", i);
tabList.append();
// writeln("--");
}
Re: Looking for a Simple Doubly Linked List Implementation
On Saturday, 21 September 2019 at 18:52:23 UTC, Dennis wrote:
On Saturday, 21 September 2019 at 08:34:09 UTC, Ron Tarrant
wrote:
Thanks, Dennis. Not performant... It doesn't work? I was
hoping for a complete, working example, but maybe this'll help.
Bad word choice (it appears it's debatable whether 'performant'
even is a word), I meant it was a simple implementation not
optimized for speed / memory efficiency.
Making it 'complete' is a bit hard since I can think of tens of
methods and operator overloads you could use, but if I include
them all it's no longer minimal and it just becomes
std.container.dlist.
Does a doubly-linked list always have to be done with structs?
Can it be classes instead?
My example originally included classes actually. It was mostly
the same, except that Node!T* was just Node!T. The only problem
was with const:
```
size_t length() const {
size_t result = 0;
for(auto a = head; a !is null; a = a.next) result++;
return result;
}
```
Since I marked the method as const, `auto a = head` got the
type const(Node!T) and `a = a.next` no longer compiled. With
structs you can declare a const(Node!T)* (mutable pointer to
const node), but I don't know if I can declare a mutable
reference to a const class, so I switched to structs.
I have no idea, either.
But I did come up with something that works, so for anyone else
looking for a full, working version (nothing fancy, mind you)
here's my code with lots of 'proofs' dumped to the command line:
```
import std.stdio;
import std.conv;
class TabList
{
private:
Tab _head;
int _lastUniqueID = 0;
string labelText;
this()
{
append();
}
void append()
{
string labelText = "Tab " ~ _lastUniqueID.to!string();
Tab current;
if(_head is null)
{
_head = new Tab(_lastUniqueID, labelText);
_head.setPrev(null);
_head.setNext(null);
}
else
{
current = _head;
writeln("before the while loop");
current.showThings();
while(current.getNext() !is null)
{
writeln("in the while loop...");
current.showThings();
if(current.getPrev() !is null)
{
writeln("prev = ",
current.getPrev().getTabID());
}
else
{
writeln("prev = null");
}
current = current.getNext();
}
writeln("out of the while loop\n");
Tab tab = new Tab(_lastUniqueID, labelText);
current.setNext(tab);
tab.setPrev(current);
}
_lastUniqueID++;
} // append()
Tab getHead()
{
return(_head);
} // getHead()
void removeTab(int uniqueID)
{
// get the head
Tab current = _head, prev, next;
// walk the list to find the Tab with the uniqueID
while(current.getNext() !is null)
{
// if the uniqueID matches the head's ID
if(current.getTabID() is uniqueID)
{
// destroy the Tab object
current.destroy(uniqueID);
}
// else
else
{
// go to the next Tab
current = current.getNext();
}
}
} // removeTab()
} // class TabList
class Tab
{
private:
int _tabID;
string _label;
Tab _prev = null, _next = null;
public:
this(int uniqueID, string labelText)
{
_tabID = uniqueID;
_label = labelText;
} // this()
void showThings()
{
writeln("Tab = ", getTabID());
if(getPrev() !is null)
{
writeln("Tab.prev = ", getPrev().getTabID());
}
else
{
writeln("Tab.prev is null");
}
Re: Looking for a Simple Doubly Linked List Implementation
Thanks for all the responses, y'all. I got it figured out thanks to ag0aep6g pointing out something I forgot about the nature of class objects in D (Damn my failing memory). The results will show up on the gtkDcoding blog sometime in (I'm guessing) November as part of the the Notebook discussion series.
Re: Looking for a Simple Doubly Linked List Implementation
On Saturday, 21 September 2019 at 08:49:48 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
On 21.09.19 10:34, Ron Tarrant wrote:
Here's a question for the room:
Does a doubly-linked list always have to be done with structs?
Can it be classes instead? (Maybe that's why I can't get it to
work, because I've been trying to make an OOP version?)
It can be done with classes.
When I run the following code, it gets through creating the
list head and the first node, then seems to get stuck in an
infinite loop. Here's the code:
[...]
class Tab
{
[...]
Tab* _prev = null, _next = null;
[...]
Tab* getNext()
[...]
Tab* getPrev()
[...]
void setNext(Tab* tab)
[...]
void setPrev(Tab* tab)
[...]
} // class Tab
Your mistake is that you're using pointers. `Tab` is a class.
That means values of the type are already references. There is
no need for `Tab*`. Just use `Tab` wherever you have `Tab*`
now, and get rid of any addr-ofs (``) and dereferendces
(`*bar`) you have.
Ah! Thanks, ag0aep6g. I was wondering about that when I was
writing the code. (If I already knew this, I'd forgotten.) I did
as you suggested, took out all '*' and '&' and it works perfectly.
Re: Looking for a Simple Doubly Linked List Implementation
On Friday, 20 September 2019 at 20:35:41 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Not a minimal example by any means, but Phobos *does* come with
a doubly-linked list implementation: std.container.dlist.
Thanks, H.S. I did come across that in my search. Trouble is,
with all the extra stuff in there, I'm having trouble separating
what I need from what I don't.
On Friday, 20 September 2019 at 21:34:08 UTC, Dennis wrote:
Below is a simple doubly linked list with Garbage Collected
memory.
It's not performant or complete by any means, just a minimal
example in D like you wanted.
Thanks, Dennis. Not performant... It doesn't work? I was hoping
for a complete, working example, but maybe this'll help.
You probably also want methods for removing nodes or inserting
in the middle (else why don't you use an array?)
Yup. That's where I'm running into trouble.
I think you can think of an implementation for those yourself
(or look them up, there should be plenty examples online).
I thought I could, too. And I thought there'd be lots of examples
online, too. (Otherwise, I wouldn't have embarrassed myself in
public like this.) But if there are, I can't find them... not in
D. And it seems that D is just different enough from the other
examples I'm finding so that I can't use them as a guide.
Here's a question for the room:
Does a doubly-linked list always have to be done with structs?
Can it be classes instead? (Maybe that's why I can't get it to
work, because I've been trying to make an OOP version?)
When I run the following code, it gets through creating the list
head and the first node, then seems to get stuck in an infinite
loop. Here's the code:
import std.stdio;
import std.conv;
class TabList
{
Tab _head;
int lastUniqueID = 0;
string labelText;
this()
{
append();
}
void append()
{
string labelText = "Tab " ~ lastUniqueID.to!string();
Tab* current;
if(_head is null)
{
_head = new Tab(lastUniqueID, labelText);
}
else
{
current = &_head;
while(current.getNext())
{
current = current.getNext();
}
Tab tab = new Tab(lastUniqueID, labelText);
current.setNext();
current.setPrev(current);
}
lastUniqueID++;
} // append()
Tab* getHead()
{
return(&_head);
} // getHead()
} // class TabList
class Tab
{
private:
int _tabID;
string _label;
Tab* _prev = null, _next = null;
public:
this(int uniqueID, string labelText)
{
_tabID = uniqueID;
_label = labelText;
} // this()
void destroy(int id)
{
if(_tabID is id)
{
_prev.setNext(_next);
_next.setPrev(_prev);
}
} // destroy()
Tab* getNext()
{
return(_next);
} // getNext()
Tab* getPrev()
{
return(_prev);
} // getPrev()
int getTabID()
{
return(_tabID);
} // getTabID()
void setNext(Tab* tab)
{
_next = tab;
} // setNext()
void setPrev(Tab* tab)
{
_prev = tab;
} // setPrev()
} // class Tab
void main(string[] args)
{
TabList tabList;
tabList = new TabList();
for(int i = 0; i < 7; i++)
{
tabList.append();
}
writeln();
writeln();
Tab* tab = tabList.getHead();
} // main()
Looking for a Simple Doubly Linked List Implementation
Hi guys, I've been banging my head on the screen with this one for the last week or so. For whatever reason, I'm having major problems understanding how to implement a doubly-linked list in D. I don't know if it's because I'm losing my ability to sort these things or if it's just that different from C. If someone could please post a minimal example (if there's extra stuff in there, I'll get confused; I'm getting that old, dammit) I'd be ever so grateful.
Blog Post #72: The Frame, Part I
Today starts a two-part series in which we explore the gotchas and workarounds of the GTK Frame. You can find it here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/09/20/0072-frame-part-i.html
Blog Post #71: Expanding on the Statusbar
Here's the second instalment on the lowly Statusbar wherein we look at multiple status reports as well as the Statusbar's signal: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/09/17/0071-expanding-on-the-statusbar.html
Re: Using CSS Data from Within My Code
On Thursday, 12 September 2019 at 19:14:26 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
On 09/12/2019 02:54 AM, Ron Tarrant wrote:
> I thought it was odd having 'q' in front of the opening curly
brace...
I think my index can be useful in such searches. Both q"" and
q{} are there:
http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/ix.html
Ali
Thanks, Ali. I suppose I should be looking in your book first
when I have a question... as I so often do.
Blog Post #70: Statusbar Basics
Time to get down to basics with the Statusbar. Although most contemporary applications don't bother with proper status bars, these widgets can still be useful. Here's how to get started with them: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/09/13/0070-statusbar.html
Re: Using CSS Data from Within My Code
On Thursday, 12 September 2019 at 13:09:16 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
On Thursday, 12 September 2019 at 11:40:33 UTC, Ron Tarrant
wrote:
string myCSS = "tab { background-color: #f2f2f2; }";
enum will work just as well here and without the need for the
variable:
enum myCSS = "tab { background-color: #f2f2f2; }";
The original error was because q strings have to be valid D,
not because of the enum.
Ah! Thanks for clearing that up, Mike. My D knowledge is still
rather sparse, so this fills in another blank for me.
Re: Using CSS Data from Within My Code
On Thursday, 12 September 2019 at 11:35:04 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
On Thursday, 12 September 2019 at 10:09:06 UTC, Andrea Fontana
wrote:
On Thursday, 12 September 2019 at 09:54:35 UTC, Ron Tarrant
wrote:
I found this presented as a solution in a 2016 post:
On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 22:05:37 UTC, captaindet wrote:
enum myCSS = q{
GtkNotebook {
background-color: #e9e9e9;
}
GtkNotebook tab {
background-color: #d6d6d6;
}
};
But when I try to use it, I get the following errors:
Warning: C preprocessor directive #e9e9e9 is not supported
Warning: C preprocessor directive #d6d6d6 is not supported
I thought it was odd having 'q' in front of the opening curly
brace... is this a typo? Shorthand for "string quote"?
Something like that?
Or do I need to escape these somehow?
They are named "token string" and contained code must be a
valid d code. See https://dlang.org/spec/lex.html#token_strings
Thanks, Andrea and Max.
Turns out there's a simpler way to inject CSS into D code. In
case anyone else comes looking, I found that instead of an
enum, a string will do. Here's the solution I came up with to
make visible tabs in a Notebook:
That should have been:
class CSS // GTK4 compliant
{
CssProvider provider;
string myCSS = "tab { background-color: #f2f2f2; }";
this(StyleContext styleContext)
{
provider = new CssProvider();
provider.loadFromData(myCSS);
styleContext.addProvider(provider,
GTK_STYLE_PROVIDER_PRIORITY_APPLICATION);
} // this()
} // class CSS
The CSS path/file name isn't needed.
Re: Using CSS Data from Within My Code
On Thursday, 12 September 2019 at 10:09:06 UTC, Andrea Fontana
wrote:
On Thursday, 12 September 2019 at 09:54:35 UTC, Ron Tarrant
wrote:
I found this presented as a solution in a 2016 post:
On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 22:05:37 UTC, captaindet wrote:
enum myCSS = q{
GtkNotebook {
background-color: #e9e9e9;
}
GtkNotebook tab {
background-color: #d6d6d6;
}
};
But when I try to use it, I get the following errors:
Warning: C preprocessor directive #e9e9e9 is not supported
Warning: C preprocessor directive #d6d6d6 is not supported
I thought it was odd having 'q' in front of the opening curly
brace... is this a typo? Shorthand for "string quote"?
Something like that?
Or do I need to escape these somehow?
They are named "token string" and contained code must be a
valid d code. See https://dlang.org/spec/lex.html#token_strings
Thanks, Andrea and Max.
Turns out there's a simpler way to inject CSS into D code. In
case anyone else comes looking, I found that instead of an enum,
a string will do. Here's the solution I came up with to make
visible tabs in a Notebook:
class CSS // GTK4 compliant
{
CssProvider provider;
string cssPath = "./css/visible_tabs.css";
string myCSS = "tab { background-color: #f2f2f2; }";
this(StyleContext styleContext)
{
provider = new CssProvider();
provider.loadFromData(myCSS);
styleContext.addProvider(provider,
GTK_STYLE_PROVIDER_PRIORITY_APPLICATION);
} // this()
} // class CSS
And in the class that will use it, this line does it:
css = new CSS(getStyleContext());
Using CSS Data from Within My Code
I found this presented as a solution in a 2016 post:
On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 22:05:37 UTC, captaindet wrote:
enum myCSS = q{
GtkNotebook {
background-color: #e9e9e9;
}
GtkNotebook tab {
background-color: #d6d6d6;
}
};
But when I try to use it, I get the following errors:
Warning: C preprocessor directive #e9e9e9 is not supported
Warning: C preprocessor directive #d6d6d6 is not supported
I thought it was odd having 'q' in front of the opening curly
brace... is this a typo? Shorthand for "string quote"? Something
like that?
Or do I need to escape these somehow?
Re: Blog Post #69: TextView and TextBuffer Basics
On Wednesday, 11 September 2019 at 03:45:23 UTC, Zekereth wrote: Yes, thank you very much. Your tutorials are a great help! Keep it up! Thanks again. Oakey dokey.
Re: Blog Post #69: TextView and TextBuffer Basics
On Tuesday, 10 September 2019 at 09:14:13 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Seriously impressed that you're able to keep this up so consistently. Keep on trucking! Thanks, Mike.
Blog Post #69: TextView and TextBuffer Basics
This morning's discussion covers the basic workings and relationship between the TextView and TextBuffer widgets. Here's the link: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/09/10/0069-textview-and-textbuffer.html
Blog Post #68: MVC - Multi-level TreeView
Today we dig back into the MVC series to look at the multi-level TreeStore and maybe learn a little geography. You can read all about it right here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/09/06/0068-multi-level-treestore.html
Blog Post #67 - Expander
Today's post covers the Expander, a widget that... well... expands to reveal things hidden within. It's not quite a TreeView, but it's also a lot easier to use. You can read all about it here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/09/03/0067-mvc-xii-expander.html
Blog Post #66 - Toolbar Basics
Today we cover one of the basic widgets, namely, the Toolbar which isn't as straightforward to use since the deprecation of so many of GTK's StockIDs. You can find out what's changed and how to get around it right here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/08/30/0066-toolbar-basics.html
Re: Pro programmer
On Sunday, 25 August 2019 at 21:30:10 UTC, GreatSam4sure wrote: If I want to be a pro programmer what language must I start with? If it's deep understanding you want, start with assembly language. Knowing how things are done down at that level—before all the layers of abstraction are added—will give you an edge over 99% of current coders. It's the same with basic computer use. Wanna be a true expert user? Get any version of Linux or one of the BSDs and restrict yourself to using just the terminal for about a month. You'll be amazed at how much you'll learn. It'll also give you a great foundation for understanding coding. And your typing skills will go through the roof.
Blog Post #65 - TreeStore Basics
Today we go back to finish off an earlier series on MVC and stores, this time looking at the TreeStore and how to populate a hierarchy of rows. You can find it here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/08/27/0065-mvc-x-treestore-basics.html
Re: Blog Post #64 - Animating with Cairo
On Friday, 23 August 2019 at 09:37:56 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: Today, and for the next few posts, we'll be looking at Cairo animation. This time, we'll do a simple frame counter at 24fps. The post is here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/08/23/0064-cairo-vii-drawingarea-animation.html CORRECTION: Today's post covers three different examples of animation: - a text counter, - drawing a circle, and - a flipbook animating a series of images.
Blog Post #64 - Animating with Cairo
Today, and for the next few posts, we'll be looking at Cairo animation. This time, we'll do a simple frame counter at 24fps. The post is here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/08/23/0064-cairo-vii-drawingarea-animation.html
Blog Post #63 - Saving Images with Cairo
Today we look at how to save images using Cairo with examples for JPeg, PNG, BMP, and TIFF. https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/08/20/0063-cairo-vii-draw-save-images.html
Re: Blog Post #0062: Cairo Load & Display Images
On Sunday, 18 August 2019 at 17:10:38 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: It looks now very nice, thanks a lot. Excellent. Glad to do it. Wheter you chose 2, 3 or 4 is up to you. 4 is mentioned in Phobos style guide, but it is up to you, what you prefer. I've always been partial to three, but I'm also more of a tab person. Less work, if you see what I'm saying.
Re: Blog Post #0062: Cairo Load & Display Images
On Sunday, 18 August 2019 at 14:44:29 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: the indentation level are 8 spaces. Turns out it's settable in CSS. Tab size for quoted code blocks in the blog posts is now set to three. If you could check a few out and let me know if it's any better. If not, I'll take it down to two... now that I know how easy it is.
Re: Blog Post #0062: Cairo Load & Display Images
On Sunday, 18 August 2019 at 14:44:29 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: Hm I am not sure, i just tried lynx (on raspberry pi) and here also the indentation level are 8 spaces. For testing purposes, I replaced each tab with three spaces in this post: http://gtkdcoding.com/2019/05/31/0040-messagedialog.html If this works better for you, let me know and I can do a quick s-n-r on all blog posts and add this as the final prep step as the posts go up.
Re: Blog Post #0062: Cairo Load & Display Images
On Sunday, 18 August 2019 at 14:44:29 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: Hm I am not sure, i just tried lynx (on raspberry pi) and here also the indentation level are 8 spaces. Turns out, it's GitHub inserting 8 spaces per tab. No idea why anyone would think this appropriate, but there it is. A workaround you can try for now is to click through to an example code (this won't work on the blog pages, just the code pages) and, at the end of the URL, type: ?ts=3 to get tabs that are three spaces. Any number between 1 and 12 will work, apparently. Hope this helps for now. I'm still looking into this to find a more permanent solution. This 8 spaces per tab bugs me, too.
Re: Blog Post #0062: Cairo Load & Display Images
On Sunday, 18 August 2019 at 14:44:29 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: Hm I am not sure, i just tried lynx (on raspberry pi) and here also the indentation level are 8 spaces. Perhaps if I switched from using tabs to spaces... I'll try it with one of the posts and get back to you so you can test it... if that's okay with you.
Re: Blog Post #0062: Cairo Load & Display Images
On Sunday, 18 August 2019 at 09:28:30 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: II noticed you use an indentation level of 8 spaces. Is this by purpose? As far as I know, 4 spaces is recommended. I only use three in PS Pad, so the extra spaces are being inserted by either Perl, Jekyll, Liquid, or some part of the GitHub Pages site. Is it possible it's an interpretation layered on by the web browser on your phone? I don't know enough about how browsers work to determine whether or not this is a valid question.
Re: Blog Post #0062: Cairo Load & Display Images
On Friday, 16 August 2019 at 12:58:23 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: This causes some distruction on mobile phone as you have scroll horizontally although it would fit the screen if the source code would start at column 0. That didn't take as long as I thought it would. I removed all excess indentation, so let me know if it's any better now.
Re: Blog Post #0062: Cairo Load & Display Images
On Friday, 16 August 2019 at 12:58:23 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
Thanks a lot Ron, your page is really helpful.
You're welcome, Andre. And thanks for saying so.
Is there a reason why the source code starts after a lot of
whitespaces on every line?
This causes some distruction on mobile phone as you have scroll
horizontally although it would fit the screen if the source
code would start at column 0.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I've recently switched
from basic MD for displaying source and the way I was doing it
demanded that everything be indented one tab. I've since switched
to Jekyll/Liquid's {% highlight d %} system which doesn't have
this limitation.
Now that I know this is an issue, give me a some time and I'll
get all those extra indents removed.
Re: Blog Post #0062: Cairo Load & Display Images
On Friday, 16 August 2019 at 12:44:15 UTC, bauss wrote: Amazing! You might be able to answer me something, whether you could use gtkd solely for image manipulation using ex. Pixbuf? or would it only work with the internals of gtkd? Like can you manipulate the image and save it to disk etc. Those are very good questions, bauss. I haven't dug in that deep yet, but I see no reason why Cairo couldn't be used to build a full-featured paint, manipulation, or structured drawing application. But it won't only be about Pixbufs. The Cairo Context seems to be where all the action is as far as drawing routines go. Over the next few months, off and on, I'll be exploring stuff like that. I'm still working on getting through all the unsexy stuff first (the basic widgets) but every once in a while, I just have to let my hair down and do something that's a bit more complex. After the basic image and drawing stuff is covered, I'll be digging into simple animation and how to tame the Timeout. Then, after a short side-trip to finish off MVC and do some more base-level widgets such as the Toolbar, Statusbar, and Expander, there's another Cairo miniseries coming up that covers nodes and noodles, something I've wanted to dig into for several years. Thanks for reading and thanks for the kind words.
Blog Post #0062: Cairo Load & Display Images
Continuing on with Cairo, this post covers loading and displaying three types of image (including a structured drawing) using two different load-n-display methods. As an extra bonus, you'll see a photo of my cat, Bob, and three of the seven guitars I've found in my building's recycle room over the last year. https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/08/16/0062-cairo-vi-load-display-images.html
Blog Post #0061: Cairo Toy Text
When all you want is quick-n-dirty text in a GTK DrawingArea and Pango seems like more than you wanna deal with, Cairo's Toy Text will do the job nicely. Here's how: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/08/13/0061-cairo-v-toy-text-image-formats.html
Blog Post #0060: Cairo Filled Arcs, Precision Arcs, and Curves
Today's post covers a lot of ground and answers a few of those burning questions you may have about taming Cairo arcs and curves. Still, it's a quick read because... well, tons of diagrams and screenshots. So, come on over and take a look: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/08/09/0060-cairo-iv-fill-arc-cartoon-mouth.html
Blog Post #0059: Cairo Circles and Arcs
Today's post covers the basics of drawing circles and arcs in a DrawingArea using Cairo functions. You can find it here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/08/06/0059-cairo-iii-circles-and-arcs.html Also, in case it got missed, there's a second index of blog posts where everything is sorted by subject and that's right here: https://gtkdcoding.com/topics/
Blog Post #0058: Cairo Rectangles
Continuing on with Cairo, this is a look at the variations and permutations of drawing rectangles and you'll find it here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/08/02/0058-cairo-ii-rectangles.html
Re: Meaning of Scoped! ??
On Tuesday, 30 July 2019 at 09:46:07 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote: Looking at its source code, it seems it's a way to force the call of "destroy" method of wrapped object (Context in your case) when the struct goes out of its scope (and d-tor is called) Andrea Thanks, Andrea (and rikki). I actually learned this a while back (even wrote about it in a blog post) but I've noticed my memory is playing tricks on me lately. In fact, don't be surprised if I ask this same question (or a close variation of it) next month. (sigh)
Blog Post #0057: The Basics of Drawing with Cairo
Several months ago, someone asked if I'd be covering drawing routines and after much preparation, today's post is the first in a series on drawing with Cairo. You can find it here: http://gtkdcoding.com/2019/07/30/0057-cairo-i-the-basics.html
Meaning of Scoped! ??
Some things are almost impossible to research. For instance, in
the GtkD wrapper code—specifically the Widget.d file—the
following function definition appears:
gulong addOnDraw(bool delegate(Scoped!Context, Widget) dlg,
ConnectFlags connectFlags=cast(ConnectFlags)0)
{
return Signals.connect(this, "draw", dlg, connectFlags ^
ConnectFlags.SWAPPED);
}
With contemporary search engines, it's impossible to search for
'!' and get meaningful results. And searching for 'Scoped!'
results in every variation of the word 'scope' and ignores the
'!' altogether, even with Google's Verbatim tool turned on.
Worse, Google ignores case as well.
I also searched all three D-language books and found nothing.
Here are my questions:
1) What exactly does the '!' mean? For instance, '=' means "is
equal to," but I don't know what words to 'think' while looking
at a '!'
2) What does 'Scoped' mean?
3) In the specific instance above, what does 'Scoped!Context'
mean as opposed to just 'Context'? In other words, what are the
differences between 'Scoped!Context' and 'Context'?
The last question needs more explanation...
In Widget.d, there are two overloads of addOnDraw(), the one
cited above and this one:
deprecated gulong addOnDraw(bool delegate(Context, Widget) dlg,
ConnectFlags connectFlags=cast(ConnectFlags)0)
{
return Signals.connect(this, "draw", dlg, connectFlags ^
ConnectFlags.SWAPPED);
}
The former works, but the latter spits out a 'deprecated' error
(naturally).
Blog Post #0056: MVC IX - A ComboBox with Flair
Today we get to do something unusual. Drawing on and combining a bunch of things we've done in past instalments, we'll build a two-column ComboBox with different images, custom fonts, and background colors for each item in the list. Here's the post: http://gtkdcoding.com/2019/07/26/0056-mvc-ix-a-combobox-with-flair.html
Blog Post #0055: MVC VIII - Dynamically Loading a TreeView
Hi y'all, This week's first post is entry #8 in the MVC series and covers loading up a TreeView with a decorated list of system fonts. Decorations include varying the size, weight, and style as well as the font face. You can view it here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/07/23/0055-mvc-viii-dynamically-loading-a-treeview.html
Blog Post #0054: MVC VII - TreeView Basics
If you've been anticipating the TreeView examples, today's post is where the rubber hits the road with a look at the differences and similarities between populating a ComboBox and a TreeView. You can find it here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/07/19/0054-mvc-vii-treeview-basics.html
Blog Post #0053: MVC VI - ComboBox with Pixbufs
Carrying on with installment #6 of the MVC series, we see how to use images in a ComboBox. This is the last bit of peripheral stuff we'll need to know before tackling the TreeView and (later) the TreeStore. Here it is: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/07/16/0053-mvc-vi-image-combobox.html
Re: Substitutions with writef() or format()?
On Sunday, 14 July 2019 at 13:45:38 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote:
'Morning, all.
If these lines:
string currency = format("$%,.02f", 11_234_456.99);
writeln(currency);
Will result in:
$11,234,456.99
Why don't these lines:
string notCurrency = format("%,", 11_234_456);
writeln(notCurrency);
result in:
11,234,456
???
Instead of a range violation?
Never mind. This works:
string notCurrency = format("%,?d", ',', 11_234_456);
writeln(notCurrency);
Substitutions with writef() or format()?
'Morning, all.
If these lines:
string currency = format("$%,.02f", 11_234_456.99);
writeln(currency);
Will result in:
$11,234,456.99
Why don't these lines:
string notCurrency = format("%,", 11_234_456);
writeln(notCurrency);
result in:
11,234,456
???
Instead of a range violation?
Re: Blog Post #0052: MVC V - ComboBox with Integers
On Friday, 12 July 2019 at 11:29:39 UTC, BoQsc wrote: Gnome project should just rewrite everything in D language, especially the Gnome Shell. At least that would be a right direction. LOL! It would likely take a planet-wide referendum, but I imagine you'll get strong support on this forum. :) Thanks for the texts Ron, it is so nice to see images - visuals, showing the result and they fit so nicely with your article. The more visuals and working examples - the easier for some of us to understand. :) Thanks for the kind words.
Blog Post #0052: MVC V - ComboBox with Integers
Today's post deals with integers in a ComboBox. It's not exactly tricky, but a little clarification never hurts, right? Here's where you'll find it: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/07/12/0052-mvc-v-int-combobox.html
Re: Blog Post #0051: MVC IV - ComboBox with Text
On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 at 20:31:36 UTC, Greatsam4sure wrote: Is it possible to get all the tutorials in a pdf file for offline work? Thanks in advance Just found out about this on FB. Packt is having a sale right now, 3 ebooks for $30 and they have three books about D. https://www.packtpub.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=d+programming=IwAR3pAZYU8uLmLJIdxrOiptVrBbikGbsDGBFvAPFyiYqW08pI0EMP3mjnc7k
Re: Blog Post #0051: MVC IV - ComboBox with Text
On Wednesday, 10 July 2019 at 20:31:36 UTC, Greatsam4sure wrote: On Tuesday, 9 July 2019 at 12:08:04 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: Today's post starts a mini series-within-a-series on dressing up the ComboBox using a ListStore. Essentially, it's ListStore basics leading up to how this type of model is used with a TreeView. You can find it here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/07/09/0051-mvc-iv-combobox-text.html Great work! I see this series of tutorial becoming a book for gtkd. Is it possible to get all the tutorials in a pdf file for offline work? Thanks in advance I do have this planned, but I want to get through the basic stuff first. So, there may be a bit of a wait.
Blog Post #0051: MVC IV - ComboBox with Text
Today's post starts a mini series-within-a-series on dressing up the ComboBox using a ListStore. Essentially, it's ListStore basics leading up to how this type of model is used with a TreeView. You can find it here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/07/09/0051-mvc-iv-combobox-text.html
Re: Blog Post #0050: MVC III - ComboBoxText, Add & Remove
On Friday, 5 July 2019 at 13:52:40 UTC, matheus wrote: On Friday, 5 July 2019 at 09:34:08 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: Today is a bit of a milestone for the blog as the 50th regular post goes up. Also, the facelift is coming along nicely, the next phase of which should be ready to push by July 9th. Maybe you should post this on the Announce group? And on Reddit too. Matheus. Point taken, but I was going to wait until the next phase of the face lift is ready to go.
Blog Post #0050: MVC III - ComboBoxText, Add & Remove
Today is a bit of a milestone for the blog as the 50th regular post goes up. Also, the facelift is coming along nicely, the next phase of which should be ready to push by July 9th. And today's topic continues with the MVC series by demonstrating how to add and remove items from a ComboBoxText widget. You can read it here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/07/05/0050-mvc-iii-comboboxtext-add-remove.html
Re: Blog Post #0048: Model, View, Controller
On Wednesday, 3 July 2019 at 17:12:04 UTC, lpcvoid wrote: Thanks for the time you invest in this. You're welcome. Tell your friends. :)
Blog Post #0049: MVC - The ComboBoxText
Continuing the series on Model, View, Controller... This time around, we look at the ComboBoxText, the simplest of the MVC offerings. https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/07/02/0049-mvc-ii-comboboxtext.html
Blog Post #0048: Model, View, Controller
Today's post on gtkdcoding.com is the first in a 9-part series covering GTK's model/view/controller mechanism and how it's used in various widgets including the TreeView. Today is mostly theory, a reference (if you will) for the rest of the series. You can read it here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/06/28/0048-mvc-i-introduction.html
Blog Post #0047: ScaleButton and VolumeButton
There are a couple of things to watch out for with the ScaleButton and its offspring, the VolumeButton. Read all about it here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/06/25/0047-scalebutton-and-volumebutton.html
gtkDcoding Facelift
Stage 1 is now complete. Blog entries are color-associated in an effort to make things more visual. Each topic also has its own avatar. Points to anyone who can figure out why each avatar is associated with its topic. https://gtkdcoding.com/
Blog Post #0046 - SpinButton
Friday's post covers the SpinButton and its all-important Adjustment object companion. You can find it here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/06/21/0046-the-spinbutton.html Facelift Update Things are moving along nicely and I expect the fully-realized site to be unveiled within the next week.
Re: Blog Post #0045 - Split a Window into Panes
On Tuesday, 18 June 2019 at 13:19:48 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: And just a quick tip of the hat Forgot to thank Russell Winder for suggesting Previous/Next buttons which have also been implemented on all pages. Should make navigation easier for those multi-part posts.
Blog Post #0045 - Split a Window into Panes
Two announcements today... First, today's post covers splitting a window into panes. You can find it here: https://gtkdcoding.com/2019/06/18/0045-split-a-window-into-panes.html Second, you'll notice some changes in the site. At the prompting of a bunch of people here and elsewhere, I've starting making the site more visual. - The first step was to color-code the blog entries by topic. - You'll also notice that the first three posts from back in January now have screenshots. And just a quick tip of the hat to Michelle Long, Greatsam4sure, and sanyayss for suggesting it. It just took me a while to get organized enough to do it. Future Facelist Plans - get screenshots and any other appropriate graphics into each blog post. If there are any posts you think need something special, image wise, please let me know at: gtkdcoding over on gmail. (please suffix a dot and a com and shove an 'at' in the middle there) - icons for each topic will eventually appear alongside each link on the main page so as to make the topics even easier to pick out. And if anyone has any other suggestions, please let me know those too. Due to time constraints, I won't promise to implement all of them, but I'll do my best. Also, if anyone knows how to implement a non-paid commenting system on GitHub Pages, I'd appreciate some advice on how to go about it. I always have a hard time with systems involving three or more languages (like in this case: Jekyll, Liquid, HTML, markdown, CSS and Ruby.
Blog Post #0044 - File Dialog X - Custom Dialogs (3 of 3)
Today sees the last of the mini-series on custom Dialog windows wherein we combine everything from the first two articles together into one final *Dialog*. You can find it here: http://gtkdcoding.com/2019/06/14/0044-custom-dialog-iii.html
Blog Post #0043 - File Dialog IX - Custom Dialogs (2 of 3)
This is the second in a series (Custom Dialogs) within a series (Dialogs) and deals with the action area. It's available here: http://gtkdcoding.com/2019/06/11/0043-custom-dialog-ii.html
Blog Post #0042 - File Dialog VIII - Custom Dialogs (1 of 3)
Today starts a mini-series within a series about rolling yer own Dialogs. And because aesthetics is such a big part of doing layout, we start with a mini crash course in design. Here's the link: http://gtkdcoding.com/2019/06/07/0042-custom-dialog-i.html
Blog Post #0041 - File Dialog VII - The ColorChooser Dialog
For the first blog instalment this week, we look at the ColorChooserDialog and discuss the differences between it and the ColorChooserButton as well as how to by-pass white as a default color. You can find it here: http://gtkdcoding.com/2019/06/04/0041-colorchooserdialog.html
Re: What is difference between struct and class?
On Monday, 3 June 2019 at 09:43:25 UTC, Rnd wrote: These similarities and differences should be highlighted in documentation etc since many new users have at least some knowledge of C/C++ and understanding will be easier. Perhaps this will help: https://dlang.org/articles/ctod.html
Re: How to create GTK+ apps with Glade and D on windows
On Friday, 31 May 2019 at 18:47:06 UTC, Obsidian Jackal wrote: I'm new to D and want to create GTK+ apps. I have Visual Studio, Glade, the Gtk+ runtime, DMD, and DUB installed. What steps, guides, or advice should I follow to be able to be able to use these tools together to make a sane app?. If you aren't opposed to reading about hand-coding techniques: http://GtkDcoding.com
Blog Post #0040 - File Dialog VI - The Simple Message Dialog
Today's blog post covers a topic that was requested back in mid-April, the message dialog. Some of the extra info you may glean from today's post is: - tracing widget inheritance to find a complete list of available functions, and - where to find the DialogFlags enum. You can find it here: http://gtkdcoding.com/2019/05/31/0040-messagedialog.html Have a great weekend, everyone.
Blog Post Rewrite - Callback Signal Chains
While doing screenshots for the gtkDcoding blog (See? I'm working on it.) I discovered something cool about signal callback chains in GtkD. So, I ended up rewriting the code and the blog post to include this coolness. You can read it here: http://gtkdcoding.com/2019/02/19/0011-callback-chains.html
Re: Blog Post #0039 - File Dialog V - Adding SaveAs and Titlebar Filename Reflection
Hi WebFreak. I'm glad you're getting something out of it. I started this because it's the kind of thing I wished was out there. It's good to know I'm not the only one. On Tuesday, 28 May 2019 at 12:58:12 UTC, WebFreak001 wrote: Could you maybe add screenshots to each blog post? I've had a ton (Well, four... Five? Six?) requests to do them and I have started down that road, but it's going to take a bit of time what with everything else I've got going on ATM. They could be shown for example right at the top of each post and maybe a thumbnail in the post list and that way greatly simplify searching a tutorial of interest and also massively help with sharing links to your posts online where OpenGraph or Twitter images are embedded. (see https://gethead.info/ for good examples how to add these meta tags) I'll see if I can sort this out. Is the source code of your site available somewhere? I'm not sure what you mean by this... the HTML? the Jekyll code? Or are you asking about the example files? Because the examples are all there with links in the blog posts, if that's what you're asking about. But if you're asking about the HTML/Jekyll/whatever, I have to ask: why do you want access? Also it would be nice if it supported HTTPS. (LetsEncrypt certificates are free and easy to setup for this) Why would I need secure pages?
Blog Post #0039 - File Dialog V - Adding SaveAs and Titlebar Filename Reflection
Good day to you all. 'Tis another Tuesday and time for a new blog post. This is a continuation of the series on Dialogs and further, a continuation of the mini-series-within-a-series on file Dialogs. The subject is in the title as is fitting for a blog post about putting things in the titlebar. You can find it here: http://gtkdcoding.com/2019/05/28/0039-file-save-as-dialog.html
Re: Blog Post #0038 - Dialogs IV - Saving a File
On Friday, 24 May 2019 at 11:19:14 UTC, Radu wrote: But there is also the marketing effect, these posts will be more inviting for newcomers, especially ones coming from no D experience. Might worth considering even for this reason as your posts could be a powerful marketing tool for D. Yup, that's what the research says *in favour of* images. However, other research indicates that images slow down learning because the learner gets complacent. Rather than engaging in deep learning, they glance at the image, copy-n-paste the code, and never truly understand what they're working with. At some point down the road, they get into trouble because they don't have that deep understanding and they abandon any further efforts. So, that's the dilemma. Both arguments seem sound to me, so that's why I'm still on the fence.
Re: Blog Post #0038 - Dialogs IV - Saving a File
On Friday, 24 May 2019 at 10:09:06 UTC, Radu wrote: Interesting posts you have. Thanks. I might not be the first one to ask for this, but including some screen shots when talking about UI is usually a good idea. You're right; you're not. :) I'm still debating this idea, but I won't say I'm adamantly opposed to it. Research into how people learn seems to support both sides of the argument: should imagery be included or not? And I suppose if I ever pull all this stuff together into a book, it'll be expected.
Blog Post #0038 - Dialogs IV - Saving a File
Today's blog post over on gtkDcoding.com is about using a GTK dialog for saving a file. You can find it here: http://gtkdcoding.com/2019/05/24/0038-file-save-dialog.html
Re: Blog Post #0038 - Dialogs IV - Saving a File
Almost forgot... I also redid the titles for all posts to clarify and group them under various themes.
Blog Post #0037 - File Dialog II - Open Multiple Files
Tuesday creeps up on us again and it's time for another blog post. Today's instalment continues from last time with a multi-select file dialog. You can find it here: http://gtkdcoding.com/2019/05/21/0037-file-open-multiple.html
Re: GTKD - overrideBackgroundColor of Button doesn't work
On Wednesday, 22 June 2016 at 07:57:01 UTC, TheDGuy wrote: I am wondering if it is possible to get the name of the current CSS-class the button is asigned to? Very late to this party, but: getName() does the job.
Re: Blog Post #0036 - File Dialog - Open a Single File
On Friday, 17 May 2019 at 12:14:51 UTC, drug wrote: TreeView widget needs to be implemented. So still I have no a solution that satisfy me completely. Yeah, they're confusing, for sure. If you don't need anything elaborate, you might have a look at this: https://github.com/rontarrant/gtkDcoding/blob/master/017_list_tree/list_tree_017_08_columns.d Maybe it'll help.
Re: Blog Post #0036 - File Dialog - Open a Single File
On Friday, 17 May 2019 at 11:12:41 UTC, Alex wrote: movable icons that can be interacted with using the icon by dragging them around in a DrawingArea. So if you need ideas to for another tutorial... Yup, this type of thing is on my todo list, but my lead time is around six weeks ATM, so it may take a while before it shows up on the blog. Some of the ideas I have for DrawingArea tutorials: - drag-n-drop (as you describe), - nodes-n-noodles (as seen here: https://codepen.io/osublake/pen/4c3752574267b3a986cb8eee7ccb8c81), and (of course) - drawing with the mouse. My plan is to be as thorough as possible with coverage of each widget and to do them in more-or-less easiest to hardest order. Once the series on Dialog windows is finished, there's a whole raft of stuff on ListStore and TreeStore and how they interact with TreeView and ComboBox via TreeIter, TreeSelection, etc., etc. That's taking most of my time ATM. Thanks for the comment, Alex. Have a great day.
Blog Post #0036 - File Dialog - Open a Single File
The second post this week continues the series on Dialogs. This one is about opening files and can be found here: http://gtkdcoding.com/2019/05/17/0036-file-open-dialogs.html
Blog Post #0035 - AboutDialog Howto
Today starts a new series on gtkDcoding, this one covers a large wad of Dialogs starting with (perhaps) the simplest of them all: the AboutDialog. The post can be found here: http://gtkdcoding.com/2019/05/14/0035-help-about-dialog.html
Re: dub / debug build / missing symbols
On Saturday, 11 May 2019 at 16:12:34 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote:
I somehow managed to get debug symbols into my dub project in
the past.
Now I'm trying to extend my dub configuration to use different
libs for debug and release versions.
"buildTypes" : {
"debug" : {
"libs-windows-x86_64" : ["user32", "gdi32",
"mylib1_d_x64", "mylib2_d_x64"],
},
"release" : {
"libs-windows-x86_64" : ["user32", "gdi32",
"mylib1_x64", "mylib2_x64"],
}
},
And now, the debug build doesn't contain any symbols anymore...
what am I missing?
Not really familiar with this, but at a guess...
Have you tried it without the 32-bit references?
Blog Post #0034 - A Singleton AccelGroup
In today's blog post is an example of how to use a singleton for the AccelGroup, so you don't have to pass a reference down through a gazillion levels to get it to the MenuItems. It's right here: http://gtkdcoding.com/2019/05/10/0034-accelgroup_singleton.html
Re: Framework design, initialization and framework usage
On Thursday, 9 May 2019 at 11:48:59 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: The application won't know/see a difference on which platform it runs. I expect some differences in how GUI actions are handled or communicated to the framework, however these should be rare and can be handled with conditional compilation. This is sounding more and more interesting.
Re: Blog Post #0032 - Menu Accelerator Keys
On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 at 15:06:23 UTC, number wrote: I do feel a bit pedantic about it too :) That's like OCD, right? :)
Re: Framework design, initialization and framework usage
On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 at 10:21:34 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: However, I'm happy to post some updates/screenrecordings to show our progress. Works for me. What are you interested in or what would you do with such a framework? You sparked my interest because it sounds like you're working on something similar to what I cover in a blog I've been writing since January (http://gtkdcoding.com). Rather than write something from scratch like you guys (I'm not that brave) I take an OOP approach to GtkD, modularizing so it's as close to using Lego as possible. This blog is a revamp of another I started back in 2006 for PHP-GTK, but using D rather than PHP and updated to GTK 3.x. The original also included an application framework (which I haven't yet reproduced in D) with a pluggable do/undo/redo system. So you can see why I perked up when I read your thread. And I assume your framework is written with D as a base language? And you said it's cross-platform, too? Windows, Mac, Linux? Are any of the BSDs supported? Assuming all that, we're very much of the same mind: cross-platform GUI applications made fast-n-easy using a single language and toolkit.
Re: Framework design, initialization and framework usage
On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 at 06:30:56 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: The goal is to have a generic framework for desktop apps where you can directly start to work on the app and don't have to care about getting all the necessary environment and building-blocks up & running. * High speed 2D graphics (working) * GUI widget set, self-drawn via 2D graphics. Not using any OS widgets. Portable. (only simple tests so far) * Flex-Box like layouting of GUI elements (working) * Framework and App logic linked/using Reactive pattern. Message passing everywhere. (working) * Selfcontained executables, no external dependencies (working) * SQLite3 included (working) * LuaJIT as embedded scripting layer for declarative GUIs (not yet decided) This sounds like a complete replacement for either QT, MFC, or GTK as well as Glade/QT Designer all rolled into one. Our focus is executable size (I'm an old school guy) and speed. Right with you there. For some simple real-time grid example see: https://www.dropbox.com/s/eyya0brc5sbcs09/Bildschirmaufnahme%202019-05-02%20um%2022.09.54.mov?dl=0 Very impressive. Is there somewhere I can follow along with what you guys are doing? Do you have a GitHub presence?
