On Thursday, 27 May 2021 at 09:01:04 UTC, btiffin wrote:

Thanks a lot for your info :) !

I want you to know that I am replying to myself on the first post summarizing what I already learned researching the subject starting with the tips provided by you as well as anyone else that replied to my post. Please, if you want and have the time, check my last post and let me know anything I got wrong.

On Thursday, 27 May 2021 at 16:49:41 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:

Thanks a lot for your info :) !

I want you to know that I am replying to myself on the first post summarizing what I already learned researching the subject starting with the tips provided by you as well as anyone else that replied to my post. Please, if you want and have the time, check my last post and let me know anything I got wrong.

As I stated in the original post and feel at ease with GTK+ 2.# and not so with the GTK+ 3.#. That's is why I choose MATE as my desktop environment which in reality is a stripped down version of MATE itself: the widget that rocks is the MATE panel, everything else is questionable, not to mention really bad software like Atril (the PDF viewer). I do run MATE on archlinux right now and built the package myself setting aside everything I do not want/use.

Do you know if GTKD will be kepping support for the 2.# branch, or, if they plan to deprecate it moving ahead ?

On Thursday, 27 May 2021 at 01:17:44 UTC, someone wrote:

Win32Api. You can use resEdit to create your resource GUI. Work only for Windows. Here is my program created with Dlang and Win32Api GUI: https://sourceforge.net/projects/direct-http-tunnel/

On Friday, 28 May 2021 at 01:44:24 UTC, zjh wrote:

nana ? can you elaborate please ?

On Friday, 28 May 2021 at 17:04:15 UTC, Vinod K Chandran wrote:

import winglib ;
import std.stdio : log = writeln;

void main() { 	

	auto frm = new Window() ;	
	frm.text = "Learning D By Writing D";

        // C = Control class. Window is derived from Control
        // E = EventArgs.

	frm.onMouseHover = (c, e) => log("Mouse is now on ", e.x, ", ", e.y);
	frm.onMouseLeave = (c, e) => log("Mouse leaved from window") ;	
	frm.onKeyDown =  (c, e) => log(e.keyCode, " key is pressed");
	frm.create() ;

	auto btn = new Button(frm) ;
	btn.font.name = "Calibri" ;
        btn.width = 150 ;
	btn.text = "DMD Or LDC" ;
	btn.font.size = 14 ;
	btn.create() ;

	frm.show() ;	
	
}

Win32Api + Metaprogramming?

On Saturday, 29 May 2021 at 00:52:10 UTC, someone wrote:

I've also been looking for good GUI.
Now, I just find WTL. I don't like QT. It's too big.
I don't like LGPL. You can't link statically.
If you want to bind, I think wxwidget is good.
Sciter's problem is that it doesn't open source. Their binding(wx/sciter) is out of date.
There is also a beamui.

On Saturday, 29 May 2021 at 00:57:51 UTC, Marcone wrote:

Thanks a lot for your info :) !

I want you to know that I am replying to myself on the first post summarizing what I already learned researching the subject starting with the tips provided by you as well as anyone else that replied to my post. Please, if you want and have the time, check my last post and let me know anything I got wrong.

I do have a LOT of experience coding on the Windows platform, I have no less than 20 years at least, since Windows NT 1.0 precisely, I do feel at ease with Win32 and COM. The problem right now is that, for whatever reasons, I stopped being coding Microsoft-centric solutions 5 or-so years ago. I am on archlinux right now and have a few boxes running freeBSD and/or DragonFlyBSD. I do not plan to go back to Microsoft. Obviously, I miss a lot of things; but mainly, SQL-Server, everything XML-related which is rock-solid on the Microsoft side, and last but not least, PowerShell, which I love by design but regret the way that was implemented, specially since the 2.0 release, it ended really bloated, but the concept, rocks.

I started to left ship with MicroSoft in the Vista ~ Windows 8 time frame and left definitely on Windows 9/10. My last boxes still run Windows Server 2008 R2 with the newer versions of SQL-Server. Ballmer destroyed Microsoft as quality code. The userspace since Vista was terrible -and don't get me started on the Metro UI.

On Thursday, 27 May 2021 at 17:04:07 UTC, Alain De Vos wrote:

It seems to me the bindings are the symptoms and not the causes: the problem, to my humble opinion, is that for whatever reasons, we have a lot of toolkits trying to reinvent powder over and over. In Windows/Mac there's no problem since more-or-less they have standard controls, and anyone not using them is because they bypass them pursuing multi-platform support. In the nixes is more complicated since there were never standard/unified controls/guidelines. There are people who thinks diversity is a plus and there others stating standardization is the way forward. Like it or not, that is we have on the nixes.