<alert comment="windows developer who is relatively ignorant about cross-platform issues except for bad experiences with wxWidgets">

My understanding is that the latest Empire for Win32 was written with MinWin. I recall looking at MinWin quite a while back, and was intrigued by the concept of a minimal gui library.

At that point, I decided to try out Vathix's DFL for porting an app from MFC to D. I found DFL to work well and to be actively supported. I hope that the selection of DWT doesn't reduce DFL development and progress.

I was actually pleasantly surprised at the functionality in MinWin that was available and used by Empire .... such as RadioButtons and dialogs. Nice job, Ben.

My question: considering the dominance of Windows on the desktop, does that justify having a non-portable gui library for Windows being endorsed, supported, and/or "official"? (whatever that means) .... in addition to DWT?

IMHANVIO (in my humble and not very informed opinion), DFL (and
perhaps MinWin?) would be appropriate to be considered as official and
endorsed gui libraries for D.

</alert>

> At that point, I decided to try out Vathix's DFL for porting an app
> from MFC to D. I found DFL to work well and to be actively supported.
> I hope that the selection of DWT doesn't reduce DFL development and
> progress.

I like DFL too , its especially useful for people coming from .NET.  And it has kick-ass GUI builder ( http://www.dprogramming.com/entice.php ) .

> IMHANVIO (in my humble and not very informed opinion), DFL (and
> perhaps MinWin?) would be appropriate to be considered as official and
> endorsed gui libraries for D.

I do think that digitalmars.D.dwt should be renamed

D.gui.dwt

Which would also allow for

D.gui.dfl
D.gui.wxD
D.gui.MinWin
D.gui.dui

etc ...

Particularly because DWT is not the product of Digitalmars.

$0.02

Charlie


Lynn Allan wrote:
> <alert comment="windows developer who is relatively ignorant about
> cross-platform issues except for bad experiences with wxWidgets">
> 
> My understanding is that the latest Empire for Win32 was written with
> MinWin. I recall looking at MinWin quite a while back, and was
> intrigued by the concept of a minimal gui library.
> 
> At that point, I decided to try out Vathix's DFL for porting an app
> from MFC to D. I found DFL to work well and to be actively supported.
> I hope that the selection of DWT doesn't reduce DFL development and
> progress.
> 
> I was actually pleasantly surprised at the functionality in MinWin
> that was available and used by Empire .... such as RadioButtons and
> dialogs. Nice job, Ben.
> 
> My question: considering the dominance of Windows on the desktop, does
> that justify having a non-portable gui library for Windows being
> endorsed, supported, and/or "official"? (whatever that means) .... in
> addition to DWT?
> 
> IMHANVIO (in my humble and not very informed opinion), DFL (and
> perhaps MinWin?) would be appropriate to be considered as official and
> endorsed gui libraries for D.
> 
> </alert>
> 
> 
> 
> 

Charles wrote:
>  > At that point, I decided to try out Vathix's DFL for porting an app
>  > from MFC to D. I found DFL to work well and to be actively supported.
>  > I hope that the selection of DWT doesn't reduce DFL development and
>  > progress.
> 
> I like DFL too , its especially useful for people coming from .NET.  And it has kick-ass GUI builder ( http://www.dprogramming.com/entice.php ) .
> 
>  > IMHANVIO (in my humble and not very informed opinion), DFL (and
>  > perhaps MinWin?) would be appropriate to be considered as official and
>  > endorsed gui libraries for D.
> 
> I do think that digitalmars.D.dwt should be renamed
> 
> D.gui.dwt
> 
> Which would also allow for
> 
> D.gui.dfl
> D.gui.wxD
> D.gui.MinWin
> D.gui.dui
> 
> etc ...
> 
> Particularly because DWT is not the product of Digitalmars.
> 
> $0.02
> 
> Charlie
> 
> 
> Lynn Allan wrote:
>> <alert comment="windows developer who is relatively ignorant about
>> cross-platform issues except for bad experiences with wxWidgets">
>>
>> My understanding is that the latest Empire for Win32 was written with
>> MinWin. I recall looking at MinWin quite a while back, and was
>> intrigued by the concept of a minimal gui library.
>>
>> At that point, I decided to try out Vathix's DFL for porting an app
>> from MFC to D. I found DFL to work well and to be actively supported.
>> I hope that the selection of DWT doesn't reduce DFL development and
>> progress.
>>
>> I was actually pleasantly surprised at the functionality in MinWin
>> that was available and used by Empire .... such as RadioButtons and
>> dialogs. Nice job, Ben.
>>
>> My question: considering the dominance of Windows on the desktop, does
>> that justify having a non-portable gui library for Windows being
>> endorsed, supported, and/or "official"? (whatever that means) .... in
>> addition to DWT?
>>
>> IMHANVIO (in my humble and not very informed opinion), DFL (and
>> perhaps MinWin?) would be appropriate to be considered as official and
>> endorsed gui libraries for D.
>>
>> </alert>
>>
>>
>>
>>

I also really like DFL, coming from a .NET background as well.