Hello, I'm coming from RAD land, I don't understand what use has a programing
language without a user interface? I understand the dos days, ok , but thats
over .
 I really would appreciate it, most probably I am missing something..

Well for starters, you can use it to *write* a user interface.  ;)

Also it's not a great idea to tie a language too tightly to a particular interface, be it graphical or text.

If you need a pretty IDE with drag and drop buttons and forms, D is too early along in development for that yet.  Come back in a year or so.

Every language has to start somewhere, and while Walter is like a one man Army, he isn't Microsoft;  the WYSIWYG dialog editors will have to come later.

Sean

"Mike" <Mike_member@pathlink.com> wrote in message news:b0o34e$27lv$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Hello, I'm coming from RAD land, I don't understand what use has a
programing
> language without a user interface? I understand the dos days, ok , but
thats
> over .
>  I really would appreciate it, most probably I am missing something..

"Sean L. Palmer" <seanpalmer@directvinternet.com> wrote in message news:b0og91$2er2$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Every language has to start somewhere, and while Walter is like a one man Army, he isn't Microsoft;  the WYSIWYG dialog editors will have to come later.

Writing wysisyg dialog editors is not a core competency of mine :-( so I'm hoping someone else will rise to that challenge!

In article <b0qdai$hlm$3@digitaldaemon.com>, Walter says...
>
>
>"Sean L.
Palmer" <seanpalmer@directvinternet.com> wrote in
message
>news:b0og91$2er2$1@digitaldaemon.com...
>> Every language has to start
somewhere, and while Walter is like a one man
>> Army, he isn't Microsoft;  the
WYSIWYG dialog editors will have to come
>> later.
I hope he wouldn't be like MS
with there style
>
>Writing wysisyg dialog editors is not a core competency of
mine :-( so I'm
>hoping someone else will rise to that challenge!
>
>

Sean L. Palmer wrote:
> Well for starters, you can use it to *write* a user interface.  ;)
> 
> Also it's not a great idea to tie a language too tightly to a particular
> interface, be it graphical or text.
> 
> If you need a pretty IDE with drag and drop buttons and forms, D is too
> early along in development for that yet.  Come back in a year or so.
> 
> Every language has to start somewhere, and while Walter is like a one man
> Army, he isn't Microsoft;  the WYSIWYG dialog editors will have to come
> later.
> 
> Sean

Well, i am also originally coming from RAD, but i didn't like it there. I also consider it harmful, not knowing about the usual loopback interfaces and such, which is a classical programming practice applicable to many daily tasks, hidden from RADlers.

It is important to devise a cross-platform GUI library. Then a UI builder can be written. Not the other way around. :>

I might volunteer to write a GUI builder if i appear to like the GUI library, which i shall not design myself, but will keep dropping "wishes" in. :>

For now i'm planning to write a "c-hea.d" utility, which does -- guess what! But i'll be busy for the next 2 weeks and won't actually start until afterwards. I first planned to do it in OCaml, but i think i'll rather stick to D.

-i.

In article <b0rvu3$1atm$1@digitaldaemon.com>, Ilya Minkov says...
>
>Sean L.
Palmer wrote:
>> Well for starters, you can use it to *write* a user interface.
;)
>> 
>> Also it's not a great idea to tie a language too tightly to a
particular
>> interface, be it graphical or text.
>> 
>> If you need a pretty
IDE with drag and drop buttons and forms, D is too
>> early along in development
for that yet.  Come back in a year or so.
>> 
>> Every language has to start
somewhere, and while Walter is like a one man
>> Army, he isn't Microsoft;  the
WYSIWYG dialog editors will have to come
>> later.
>> 
>> Sean
>
>Well, i am
also originally coming from RAD, but i didn't like it there.
>I also consider
it harmful, not knowing about the usual loopback
>interfaces and such, which is
a classical programming practice
>applicable to many daily tasks, hidden from
RADlers.
>
>It is important to devise a cross-platform GUI library. Then a UI builder can be written. Not the other way around. :>
>
>I might volunteer to write a GUI builder if i appear to like the GUI library, which i shall not design myself, but will keep dropping "wishes" in. :>
>
>For now i'm planning to write a "c-hea.d" utility, which does -- guess what!
I don't have the slightest idea
But i'll be busy for the next 2 weeks and won't actually start
>until afterwards. I first planned to do it in OCaml, but i think i'll rather stick to D.
>
>-i.
>

Mike wrote:
>>For now i'm planning to write a "c-hea.d" utility, which does -- guess what! 
> 
> I don't have the slightest idea

Convert C headers into D imports, so that existing C libraries and interfaces can be easily used.