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reply Vadim Lopatin <coolreader.org gmail.com> writes:
Hello,

I'm working on native Cocoa backend for DlangUI GUI library under 
OSX.
Is there any ready to use bindings for easy accessing Cocoa API?
Probably, there is some HelloWorld program which creates window 
and draws something?


Best regards,
      Vadim
Nov 10 2015
parent reply Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn puremagic.com> writes:
V Wed, 11 Nov 2015 06:17:00 +0000
Vadim Lopatin via Digitalmars-d-learn
<digitalmars-d-learn puremagic.com> napsáno:


 Hello,
 
 I'm working on native Cocoa backend for DlangUI GUI library under 
 OSX.
 Is there any ready to use bindings for easy accessing Cocoa API?
 Probably, there is some HelloWorld program which creates window 
 and draws something?
 
 
 Best regards,
       Vadim


I find only this one: http://code.dlang.org/packages/derelict-cocoa
Nov 11 2015
next sibling parent Vadim Lopatin <coolreader.org gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 09:29:47 UTC, Daniel Kozak 
wrote:

 V Wed, 11 Nov 2015 06:17:00 +0000
 Vadim Lopatin via Digitalmars-d-learn
 <digitalmars-d-learn puremagic.com> napsáno:


 Hello,
 
 I'm working on native Cocoa backend for DlangUI GUI library 
 under
 OSX.
 Is there any ready to use bindings for easy accessing Cocoa 
 API?
 Probably, there is some HelloWorld program which creates window
 and draws something?
 
 
 Best regards,
       Vadim


 I find only this one: 
 http://code.dlang.org/packages/derelict-cocoa


Me too.
It looks promising.
I'll try to use it.
Nov 11 2015
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2015-11-11 10:29, Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:


 I find only this one: http://code.dlang.org/packages/derelict-cocoa


I would recommend creating new bindings which use the new Objective-C 
interoperability feature that was added in the latest release (2.069.0).

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Nov 11 2015
parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2015-11-11 17:02, Jacob Carlborg wrote:


 I would recommend creating new bindings which use the new Objective-C
 interoperability feature that was added in the latest release (2.069.0).


You could use DStep [1] to generate the bindings. It will generate 
bindings which are not completely compatible with what the compiler can 
handle. But it can be used as a base.

[1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Nov 11 2015
next sibling parent Vadim Lopatin <coolreader.org gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 16:04:44 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:

 On 2015-11-11 17:02, Jacob Carlborg wrote:


 I would recommend creating new bindings which use the new 
 Objective-C
 interoperability feature that was added in the latest release 
 (2.069.0).


 You could use DStep [1] to generate the bindings. It will 
 generate bindings which are not completely compatible with what 
 the compiler can handle. But it can be used as a base.

 [1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep


That's interesting. Let me try.
Thank you!
Nov 11 2015
prev sibling parent reply Vadim Lopatin <coolreader.org gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 16:04:44 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:

 On 2015-11-11 17:02, Jacob Carlborg wrote:


 I would recommend creating new bindings which use the new 
 Objective-C
 interoperability feature that was added in the latest release 
 (2.069.0).


 You could use DStep [1] to generate the bindings. It will 
 generate bindings which are not completely compatible with what 
 the compiler can handle. But it can be used as a base.

 [1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep


Aren't there any ready set of translated and post-processed files 
for main OSX foundations in some repository? Could you point at 
it?
Nov 11 2015
next sibling parent Jeremy DeHaan <Dehaan.jeremiah gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 12 November 2015 at 05:50:09 UTC, Vadim Lopatin 
wrote:

 On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 16:04:44 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
 wrote:

 On 2015-11-11 17:02, Jacob Carlborg wrote:


 I would recommend creating new bindings which use the new 
 Objective-C
 interoperability feature that was added in the latest release 
 (2.069.0).


 You could use DStep [1] to generate the bindings. It will 
 generate bindings which are not completely compatible with 
 what the compiler can handle. But it can be used as a base.

 [1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep


 Aren't there any ready set of translated and post-processed 
 files for main OSX foundations in some repository? Could you 
 point at it?


That's doubtful. OS X interoperability is pretty new. If anyone 
has done any bindings like what you want I don't think they've 
announced it.
Nov 11 2015
prev sibling parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2015-11-12 06:50, Vadim Lopatin wrote:


 Aren't there any ready set of translated and post-processed files for
 main OSX foundations in some repository? Could you point at it?


I have these 6 years old bindings [1] which uses an old Objective-C 
bridge. Perhaps it's possible to do some search-and-replace to convert 
the bindings to use the new Objective-C support.

There's the Dive Framework [2] as well. It uses a fork of the compiler 
which has all the Objective-C interoperability features that the 
upstream compiler will eventually have.

[1] http://dsource.org/projects/dstep/browser/dstep
[2] https://github.com/DiveFramework/DiveFramework

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Nov 12 2015
prev sibling parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2015-11-11 10:29, Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:


 I find only this one: http://code.dlang.org/packages/derelict-cocoa


Also, there's no point in complicate the bindings by using function 
pointers like this.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Nov 11 2015
parent reply ponce <contact gamesfrommars.fr> writes:
On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 16:06:57 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:

 On 2015-11-11 10:29, Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:


 I find only this one: 
 http://code.dlang.org/packages/derelict-cocoa


 Also, there's no point in complicate the bindings by using 
 function pointers like this.


Opinion.
I only ever got problems with bindings that aren't dynamic.

For example that problem would not happen with dynamic loading.
https://github.com/nomad-software/x11/issues/11
Nov 12 2015
parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2015-11-12 09:34, ponce wrote:


 Opinion.
 I only ever got problems with bindings that aren't dynamic.

 For example that problem would not happen with dynamic loading.
 https://github.com/nomad-software/x11/issues/11


I've never encountered that problem.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Nov 12 2015