• user (9/9) Apr 25 2013 I was pleasantly surprised to see that a small java SWT code I
• user (2/2) Apr 25 2013 oh, forgot to mention, one more change I had to do was
• Jacob Carlborg (5/12) Apr 25 2013 Cool, thanks.
• JS (3/18) Jun 28 2013 Or possibly just write a simple post processor that makes the
• Jacob Carlborg (5/7) Jun 29 2013 We tried to automatically port SWT to D, it didn't work out that well.

"user" <user test.com> writes:

I was pleasantly surprised to see that a small java SWT code I 
wrote compiles directly with DMD compiler & DWT lib. Only change 
I had to do was to change String to string and comment out 
printStackTrace.

This gets even better because now I can use Google's Windows 
Builder Pro to create SWT GUI code.

Probably this was deliberate by design, still thank you for all 
the hard work.

- an user

"user" <user test.com> writes:

oh, forgot to mention, one more change I had to do was
public static void main --> void main.

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2013-04-26 07:41, user wrote:
 I was pleasantly surprised to see that a small java SWT code I wrote
 compiles directly with DMD compiler & DWT lib. Only change I had to do
 was to change String to string and comment out printStackTrace.

 This gets even better because now I can use Google's Windows Builder Pro
 to create SWT GUI code.

I'm wondering if you can modify that to output D code directly.

 Probably this was deliberate by design, still thank you for all the hard
 work.

Cool, thanks.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

"JS" <js.mdnq gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 26 April 2013 at 06:39:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
 On 2013-04-26 07:41, user wrote:
 I was pleasantly surprised to see that a small java SWT code I 
 wrote
 compiles directly with DMD compiler & DWT lib. Only change I 
 had to do
 was to change String to string and comment out printStackTrace.

 This gets even better because now I can use Google's Windows 
 Builder Pro
 to create SWT GUI code.

 I'm wondering if you can modify that to output D code directly.

 Probably this was deliberate by design, still thank you for 
 all the hard
 work.

 Cool, thanks.

Or possibly just write a simple post processor that makes the 
modifications for you?

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2013-06-29 02:20, JS wrote:

 Or possibly just write a simple post processor that makes the
 modifications for you?

We tried to automatically port SWT to D, it didn't work out that well. 
One basically need to port half of the Java standard library.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg