Is DWT now dead?

DBLoke wrote:
> Is DWT now dead?

It's resting.
It's just pining for the fjords.
It's going to "voom" any minute now.

(actually I have no idea!  but I seem to recall it's pending improvements to something called tioport. http://dsource.org/projects/tioport)

--bb

DBLoke wrote:
> Is DWT now dead?

Pretty much.  Though the FLTK conversion sounded promising.

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:17:42 -0800, Sean Kelly wrote:

> DBLoke wrote:
>> Is DWT now dead?
> 
> Pretty much.  Though the FLTK conversion sounded promising.


Huh?

The original DWT is pretty much dead... but not the one Frank Benoit is working on in parallel with his Java->D translator.  It seems that quite a bit of progress has been going on there.  Just check out the tioport project at dsource.org to see the almost complete conversion of SWT Linux for D.

I believe there was also interest in using this project for a new port of SWT on Win32.  Although, I believe that port needs several volunteers to succeed.

-JJR

John Reimer wrote:

> The original DWT is pretty much dead... but not the one Frank Benoit is
> working on in parallel with his Java->D translator.  It seems that quite a
> bit of progress has been going on there.  Just check out the tioport
> project at dsource.org to see the almost complete conversion of SWT Linux
> for D.

So will Tioport now replace DWT, as the standard GUI library for DMD ?
(the goals of the two projects look similar enough, port SWT over to D)

> I believe there was also interest in using this project for a new port of
> SWT on Win32.  Although, I believe that port needs several volunteers to
> succeed.

The D port of SWT on Carbon (for Mac OS X) also needs some volunteers.
There was some work started on the original DWT, should be in SVN... ?

--anders

Anders F Björklund wrote:

> John Reimer wrote:
> 
>> The original DWT is pretty much dead... but not the one Frank Benoit is
>> working on in parallel with his Java->D translator.  It seems that quite
>> a
>> bit of progress has been going on there.  Just check out the tioport
>> project at dsource.org to see the almost complete conversion of SWT Linux
>> for D.
> 
> So will Tioport now replace DWT, as the standard GUI library for DMD ? (the goals of the two projects look similar enough, port SWT over to D)

I have a feeling that the goal of a standard GUI (at least by the route followed by DWT) is moot. I think a GUI library only can be standard now by it becoming so popular that everyone use it. D and Java are so different in how they operate, that a big standard GUI library will be very far from what is wanted/needed in many D projects.

> 
>> I believe there was also interest in using this project for a new port of SWT on Win32.  Although, I believe that port needs several volunteers to succeed.
> 
> The D port of SWT on Carbon (for Mac OS X) also needs some volunteers. There was some work started on the original DWT, should be in SVN... ?

I believe the effort in question, is to port the JNI wrappers to D, as it is very difficult (or impossible?) to do it automatically. The part of SWT above this level is more or less platform independent.

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