Re: A GUI library to begin with

2012-02-09 Thread Zachary Lund
On Wednesday, 8 February 2012 at 22:21:35 UTC, AaronP wrote: On 02/08/2012 09:24 AM, Jesse Phillips wrote: I think GtkD is stated to suck because it isn't native to Windows or Mac, both in look and availability. Hmm, perhaps. Incidentally, it looks great on Linux! :P GTK+ was created for

Scoped Class Instance

2012-01-31 Thread Zachary Lund
I've been looking into (basic) memory management within D. Through IRC conversation and reading the article on memory management on dlang.org (which seems to be a bit out-of-date), I've concluded that using a global (or static member) function and emplace() in std.conv is a simple solution for

Re: Scoped Class Instance

2012-01-31 Thread Zachary Lund
On Tuesday, 31 January 2012 at 15:19:00 UTC, Trass3r wrote: However, I cannot, by default, scope my custom allocations. Any ideas? std.typecons.scoped I looked into this and I'm unsure of its exact use. It says, Allocates a class object right inside the current scope which doesn't really

std.parallelism: TaskPool adjustment

2012-01-31 Thread Zachary Lund
I'm wanting to change the number of worker threads post creation of my TaskPool instance. I see nothing that allows me to do this. Isn't that abnormal for a thread pool?

Class Initialization

2012-01-31 Thread Zachary Lund
In C++, they provide a mechanism to initialize class variables to a passed value. class Test { int bob; public: Test(int jessica) : bob(jessica) { } }; The above basically says int this.bob = jessica; as opposed to this: class Test { int bob; public: Test(int

Re: Calling a C++ Object from D

2012-01-24 Thread Zachary Lund
On Tuesday, 24 January 2012 at 12:30:26 UTC, David Eagen wrote: I'm trying to understand how to call a C++ library from D. Specifically, the Windows Update API. My goal is rather simple in that I want to detect whether there is a reboot pending for the system. To do that I need to call the

Re: for loop

2012-01-22 Thread Zachary Lund
On 01/22/2012 11:08 AM, bearophile wrote: Max Klyga: If you want to declare and initialize several variables in the for loop, you can do it if they are of the same type: for (int x = 0, y = 0; ...; .++x, ++y) { ... } And if you need different types this sometimes is enough: void main() {

Re: for loop

2012-01-22 Thread Zachary Lund
On 01/22/2012 11:37 AM, Zachary Lund wrote: On 01/22/2012 11:08 AM, bearophile wrote: Max Klyga: If you want to declare and initialize several variables in the for loop, you can do it if they are of the same type: for (int x = 0, y = 0; ...; .++x, ++y) { ... } And if you need different