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digitalmars.D.dwt - A D frontend for GUI libraries.

reply Loara <loara noreply.com> writes:
I'm thinking about a common frontend for GUI D libraries making 
it easy to bind it to existent GUI libraries (GtK, SWT, SDL and 
maybe Qt also). So any user that wants to write a GUI application 
needs only to refer to this frontend and only at the end binding 
it to some GUI library.

Since I haven't any experience on GUI design I don't know how to 
proceed, so I'm waiting some experienced people before starting 
such project.
Apr 26 2022
next sibling parent reply Andrew <andrewlalisofficial gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 26 April 2022 at 13:06:12 UTC, Loara wrote:

 I'm thinking about a common frontend for GUI D libraries making 
 it easy to bind it to existent GUI libraries (GtK, SWT, SDL and 
 maybe Qt also). So any user that wants to write a GUI 
 application needs only to refer to this frontend and only at 
 the end binding it to some GUI library.

 Since I haven't any experience on GUI design I don't know how 
 to proceed, so I'm waiting some experienced people before 
 starting such project.


I only really have experience with Java's Swing and JavaFX 
libraries, and minimal experience with GtkD, but I'd say that 
making a common front-end for many different GUI libraries is 
going to be extremely difficult, due to how they may have 
completely different structures (some using XML, some using 
purely code), and how the behavior of components can vary 
slightly between versions.
Jul 09 2022
parent reply Salih Dincer <salihdb hotmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 9 July 2022 at 16:29:51 UTC, Andrew wrote:

 I only really have experience with Java's Swing and JavaFX 
 libraries, and minimal experience with GtkD [...]


How do we use Java graphics libraries in D?

On Sunday, 10 July 2022 at 01:07:09 UTC, zjh wrote:

 On Tuesday, 26 April 2022 at 13:06:12 UTC, Loara wrote:

 I'm thinking about a common frontend for GUI D libraries making



 If only there was a D binding of WTL.


What'z the WTL? Is it related to TCL?

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Jul 09 2022
next sibling parent zjh <fqbqrr 163.com> writes:
On Sunday, 10 July 2022 at 02:28:56 UTC, Salih Dincer wrote:


 What'z the WTL? Is it related to TCL?


[here](https://sourceforge.net/projects/wtl/).
Windows Template Library (WTL) is a C++ library for developing 
Windows applications and UI components.
Jul 09 2022
prev sibling parent reply Andrew <andrewlalisofficial gmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 10 July 2022 at 02:28:56 UTC, Salih Dincer wrote:


 How do we use Java graphics libraries in D?



Well, I suppose you could possible do it by making a native API 
available for the Java Native Interface, but this is entirely 
unfeasible and not worth the effort, since nobody really makes 
java desktop apps anymore, since webapps are easier to make and 
more accessible.
Jul 10 2022
parent reply Adam D Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 10 July 2022 at 08:05:07 UTC, Andrew wrote:

 Well, I suppose you could possible do it by making a native API 
 available for the Java Native Interface, but this is entirely 
 unfeasible and not worth the effort


It is quite easy for a lot of things - my jni.d can generate D 
bindings automatically from a java .class or .jar file, then you 
call it as if it is a D class.

http://arsd-official.dpldocs.info/arsd.jni.html

Wrote it for the android apis
https://code.dlang.org/packages/d_android

but I don't think anyone ever actually used it lol


still it'd probably work for other java gui things too.


though i kinda agree it probably isn't going to work that well.
Jul 13 2022
parent Hipreme <msnmancini hotmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 13 July 2022 at 12:07:46 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:

 On Sunday, 10 July 2022 at 08:05:07 UTC, Andrew wrote:

 Well, I suppose you could possible do it by making a native 
 API available for the Java Native Interface, but this is 
 entirely unfeasible and not worth the effort


 It is quite easy for a lot of things - my jni.d can generate D 
 bindings automatically from a java .class or .jar file, then 
 you call it as if it is a D class.

 http://arsd-official.dpldocs.info/arsd.jni.html

 Wrote it for the android apis
 https://code.dlang.org/packages/d_android

 but I don't think anyone ever actually used it lol


 still it'd probably work for other java gui things too.


 though i kinda agree it probably isn't going to work that well.


I have used yours a bit but then I reduced to only the part which 
I needed, so most of the things I'm doing directly from Java 
instead of D for keeping less code in D

Btw arsd.jni is pretty nice, I have done one based on arsd.jni 
but only for calling java native functions instead of full java 
support
Jul 13 2022
prev sibling parent zjh <fqbqrr 163.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 26 April 2022 at 13:06:12 UTC, Loara wrote:

 I'm thinking about a common frontend for GUI D libraries making



If only there was a D binding of WTL.
Jul 09 2022