Good day everyone.

DWT is a library for creating cross-platform GUI applications. It's a port of the SWT Java library from Eclipse. Currently supported platforms are Windows, using Win32 and Linux, using GTK.

What are the tools and step involved in converting a java GUI toolkit to D2? Is it possible in D2? What are the tools and steps involved? Is there any tutorial involve? Can one get a mentor for such a program in the forum

I am thinking if it is possible to port JavaFX to D(i.e. DFx). That will be nice for the D language. Javafx is a nice GUI toolkit.

I am basically interested in GUI desktop app that connects to the web for the now.

I can do that on Java but I would love to use D if it is possible.


I will be happy to be linked to material, tools, and tutorial that will be of help

On 2019-08-28 10:14, GreatSam4sure wrote:
> Good day everyone.
> 
> DWT is a library for creating cross-platform GUI applications. It's a port of the SWT Java library from Eclipse. Currently supported platforms are Windows, using Win32 and Linux, using GTK.
> 
> What are the tools and step involved in converting a java GUI toolkit to D2? Is it possible in D2? What are the tools and steps involved? Is there any tutorial involve? Can one get a mentor for such a program in the forum

DWT is ported manually from Java. Here's a very short guide [1]. That guide is probably written for D1.

> I am thinking if it is possible to port JavaFX to D(i.e. DFx). That will be nice for the D language. Javafx is a nice GUI toolkit.
> 
> I am basically interested in GUI desktop app that connects to the web for the now.
> 
> I can do that on Java but I would love to use D if it is possible.
> 
> 
> I will be happy to be linked to material, tools, and tutorial that will be of help

I'm working on a tool do be able to automatically convert Java code to D code [2]. It's been a while since I did any actual work on that project. As far as I can remember, it can do a syntactic translation of most Java code. What's remaining is the semantic translation.

[1] http://dsource.org/projects/dwt/wiki/Porting
[2] https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/jport/tree/dev

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Wednesday, 28 August 2019 at 09:35:55 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2019-08-28 10:14, GreatSam4sure wrote:
>> [...]
>
> DWT is ported manually from Java. Here's a very short guide [1]. That guide is probably written for D1.
>
>> [...]
>
> I'm working on a tool do be able to automatically convert Java code to D code [2]. It's been a while since I did any actual work on that project. As far as I can remember, it can do a syntactic translation of most Java code. What's remaining is the semantic translation.
>
> [1] http://dsource.org/projects/dwt/wiki/Porting
> [2] https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/jport/tree/dev


Thanks i will check it up

On Wednesday, 28 August 2019 at 10:33:33 UTC, GreatSam4sure wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 August 2019 at 09:35:55 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2019-08-28 10:14, GreatSam4sure wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> DWT is ported manually from Java. Here's a very short guide [1]. That guide is probably written for D1.
>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> I'm working on a tool do be able to automatically convert Java code to D code [2]. It's been a while since I did any actual work on that project. As far as I can remember, it can do a syntactic translation of most Java code. What's remaining is the semantic translation.
>>
>> [1] http://dsource.org/projects/dwt/wiki/Porting
>> [2] https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/jport/tree/dev
>
>
> Thanks i will check it up

Take a look at JavacTo  https://sourceforge.net/projects/javacto/

This is a java tool that uses the javac compiler to translate java to another language.  And includes a java to D code set.

It is a very visual tool and has great animation during translation and works well while using the java debugger. I include “How to get started with Eclipse”.

You can find more translations statistics at this post: https://forum.dlang.org/thread/yuamvgsdfshgrbesmjlt@forum.dlang.org#post-yuamvgsdfshgrbesmjlt:40forum.dlang.org

Hope this helps....

Patrick

On Wednesday, 28 August 2019 at 08:14:25 UTC, GreatSam4sure wrote:
> Good day everyone.
>
> DWT is a library for creating cross-platform GUI applications. It's a port of the SWT Java library from Eclipse. Currently supported platforms are Windows, using Win32 and Linux, using GTK.
>
> [...]

Perhaps this tool could be useful https://github.com/jtransc/jtransc

On Saturday, 31 August 2019 at 16:44:01 UTC, Patrick wrote:
> On Wednesday, 28 August 2019 at 10:33:33 UTC, GreatSam4sure wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 28 August 2019 at 09:35:55 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>>
>> Thanks i will check it up
>
> Take a look at JavacTo  https://sourceforge.net/projects/javacto/
>
> This is a java tool that uses the javac compiler to translate java to another language.  And includes a java to D code set.
>
> It is a very visual tool and has great animation during translation and works well while using the java debugger. I include “How to get started with Eclipse”.
>
> You can find more translations statistics at this post: https://forum.dlang.org/thread/yuamvgsdfshgrbesmjlt@forum.dlang.org#post-yuamvgsdfshgrbesmjlt:40forum.dlang.org
>
> Hope this helps....
>
> Patrick


Thanks a lot. I will dive in soon. I am in the mid of a project now