On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:31:45 -0500, Jacob Carlborg <doob@me.com> wrote:

> On 2012-07-31 19:30, Stuart wrote:
>
>> Of course it's *my* opinion. Whose else opinion would it be?
>>
>> And that's just the point. I'm *not* using D. I *want* to be using D,
>> and I've been *trying* to use D, but I keep hitting strange compiler
>> errors and libraries that won't compile (i.e. DFL).
>>
>> I like D. It's been well-thought-out. But without tools, how can it be
>> used? Yeah, I know, many of you don't use IDEs - but tell me this. How
>> can I write a GUI? Whether you like GUIs is beside the point:
>> Applications need them. There's no point writing a decent-sized program
>> without one. And yet (without DFL) you have no library support for them
>> whatsoever. To create a window or a button, I must use CreateWindow().
>> To handle events, I must use GetMessageA(). To resize controls when the
>> parent window changes size, I have to do it all by hand, in code.
>>
>> DFL and intellisense. Those are the areas this project is lacking.
>
> Have a look at DWT, I think it should work with DMD 2.059.
>
> http://dsource.org/projects/dwt
> https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/dwt
>
Hell, if we want to smother him I have half baked E17 Toolkit floating around somewhere...

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