as you should noticed i am new fan of language D...
although there are still some fields that i do not understand:

    graphical user interface? is there anything standard or will be?
    what are the available gui's? advantages, disadvatages, comparison between them and portability issue (dui, dig, windy,...).

best regards,
Miguel Ferreira Simões

On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 19:55:46 +0100, Miguel Ferreira Simões wrote:

> as you should noticed i am new fan of language D...
> although there are still some fields that i do not understand:
> 
>     graphical user interface? is there anything standard

no.

> or will be?

hopefully...
Walter show interest on the of porting SWT and wxWindows.
(SWT should be easy to do wxWindows should be very difficult.)

>     what are the available gui's? advantages, disadvatages,
>     comparison between them and portability issue (dui, dig, windy,...).
> 

DUI is a binding to Gtk+ and it's available on linux
and several windows OSs (2000, XP, 98, ...).
As far as I know DUI is the only GUI toolkit available for windows and
linux. DUI should be easy to port to all the OSs supported by GTK+ once
we have D available on those OSs.

There are 4 big disadvantages of DUI:
- windows developers have little intererst
- Gtk+ for windows isn't as good as Gtk+ for linux
.  (that's a consequence of the first, I guess)
- it's still beta (but quite usable)
- it has only one developer

(also openGL extesion are still linux only)

http://dui.sourceforge.net

I would like to see the SWT port getting off the ground.
(I promissed help but couldn't get any free time to donate - yet, I hope)

I never used any other of the gui toolkits.

leds is build on DUI:
http://leds.sourceforge.net

Ant

> 
> hopefully...
> Walter show interest on the of porting SWT and wxWindows.
> (SWT should be easy to do wxWindows should be very difficult.)
>  

SWT should be easier, not easy :-(.