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reply "December Flower" <boladore hotmail.com> writes:
Hi there.
Sorry for my poor English first.

I just started D language and looking for GUI library and 
designer.
I found some.

GUI libraries from D wiki and
Designers are Entice or Bud.
but it seems that there's no further development.

I found few threads and they are all stories of 2 or 3 years ago.

So I'm wondering if you can recommend some GUI library and 
designers to start with. For the text editor, I'm currently using 
gVim.

Best regards.
Nov 27 2012
next sibling parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2012-11-27 09:32, December Flower wrote:

 Hi there.
 Sorry for my poor English first.

 I just started D language and looking for GUI library and designer.
 I found some.

 GUI libraries from D wiki and
 Designers are Entice or Bud.
 but it seems that there's no further development.

 I found few threads and they are all stories of 2 or 3 years ago.

 So I'm wondering if you can recommend some GUI library and designers to
 start with. For the text editor, I'm currently using gVim.

 Best regards.


I think DWT is a good GUI library, but it doesn't have a GUI designer. 
Since DWT is a port of the Java library SWT you could use a GUI designer 
that supports SWT and then port the code to D.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Nov 27 2012
next sibling parent reply "JN" <666total wp.pl> writes:
On Tuesday, 27 November 2012 at 12:12:52 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:

 I think DWT is a good GUI library, but it doesn't have a GUI 
 designer. Since DWT is a port of the Java library SWT you could 
 use a GUI designer that supports SWT and then port the code to 
 D.


Sorry for off-topic interjection. I've recently started to use 
DWT and it's pretty nice, but I have a question - is file 
drag'n'drop supported in DWT (as in drag from windows explorer to 
application window)? My biggest problem was what to do with 
event.data for drop event - it's of type Object and needs to be 
somehow cast so string[], I did cast(string[])(&event.data[0..1]) 
but obviously it didn't work...
Nov 27 2012
parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2012-11-27 23:17, JN wrote:

 On Tuesday, 27 November 2012 at 12:12:52 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

 I think DWT is a good GUI library, but it doesn't have a GUI designer.
 Since DWT is a port of the Java library SWT you could use a GUI
 designer that supports SWT and then port the code to D.


 Sorry for off-topic interjection. I've recently started to use DWT and
 it's pretty nice, but I have a question - is file drag'n'drop supported
 in DWT (as in drag from windows explorer to application window)? My
 biggest problem was what to do with event.data for drop event - it's of
 type Object and needs to be somehow cast so string[], I did
 cast(string[])(&event.data[0..1]) but obviously it didn't work...


There should be a helper, somewhere, in DWT for handling casting between 
strings and objects. There's "stringcast" in "java.lang.wrappers":

https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/base/blob/master/src/java/lang/wrappers.d#L91

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Nov 27 2012
parent "JN" <666total wp.pl> writes:
On Wednesday, 28 November 2012 at 07:30:54 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:

 There should be a helper, somewhere, in DWT for handling 
 casting between strings and objects. There's "stringcast" in 
 "java.lang.wrappers":

 https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/base/blob/master/src/java/lang/wrappers.d#L91


Thanks, works :)
Nov 28 2012
prev sibling parent "December Flower" <boladore hotmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 27 November 2012 at 12:12:52 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:

 On 2012-11-27 09:32, December Flower wrote:

 Hi there.
 Sorry for my poor English first.

 I just started D language and looking for GUI library and 
 designer.
 I found some.

 GUI libraries from D wiki and
 Designers are Entice or Bud.
 but it seems that there's no further development.

 I found few threads and they are all stories of 2 or 3 years 
 ago.

 So I'm wondering if you can recommend some GUI library and 
 designers to
 start with. For the text editor, I'm currently using gVim.

 Best regards.


 I think DWT is a good GUI library, but it doesn't have a GUI 
 designer. Since DWT is a port of the Java library SWT you could 
 use a GUI designer that supports SWT and then port the code to 
 D.


Thanks. I'll check that. Have a nice day! :)
Nov 27 2012
prev sibling parent reply "Paul Crane" <paul acheronsoft.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 27 November 2012 at 08:32:49 UTC, December Flower 
wrote:

 Hi there.
 Sorry for my poor English first.

 I just started D language and looking for GUI library and 
 designer.
 I found some.

 GUI libraries from D wiki and
 Designers are Entice or Bud.
 but it seems that there's no further development.

 I found few threads and they are all stories of 2 or 3 years 
 ago.

 So I'm wondering if you can recommend some GUI library and 
 designers to start with. For the text editor, I'm currently 
 using gVim.

 Best regards.


I've been playing around with GTKD and Glade.
Dec 16 2012
parent "Lysander" <neontotem gmail.com> writes:
On Monday, 17 December 2012 at 04:52:37 UTC, Paul Crane wrote:

 On Tuesday, 27 November 2012 at 08:32:49 UTC, December Flower 
 wrote:

 Hi there.
 Sorry for my poor English first.

 I just started D language and looking for GUI library and 
 designer.
 I found some.

 GUI libraries from D wiki and
 Designers are Entice or Bud.
 but it seems that there's no further development.

 I found few threads and they are all stories of 2 or 3 years 
 ago.

 So I'm wondering if you can recommend some GUI library and 
 designers to start with. For the text editor, I'm currently 
 using gVim.

 Best regards.


 I've been playing around with GTKD and Glade.


  +1 Gtkd and glade
Dec 31 2012