On Friday, 20 May 2022 at 08:03:10 UTC, drug wrote:
> You can select category in dub (code.dlang.org) to get something like this:
> https://code.dlang.org/?sort=updated&limit=20&category=library.gui

Thanks. I'm still kind of new to dub so I didn't know this existed!
I'm glad there are multiple options that look like they'd do the job.

On Friday, 20 May 2022 at 12:32:37 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
> Avoid GTK, it's bloated, GTK4 looks like a toolkit to design mobile apps, and you need runtime dependencies on windows
>
> adam's gui library is very nice, 0 dependencies
>
> I personally prefer IMGUI, 0 dependencies, you bring the


could you send me please the link for this lib?

> windowing library of your choice, i pick GLFW since it's minimal
>
> IMGUI is fully capable, someone made a Spotify client with it!
>
> https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3907907/81094458-d20d9200-8f03-11ea-81e0-e72c0063b3a7.png

On Saturday, 28 May 2022 at 02:39:41 UTC, Jack wrote:
> On Friday, 20 May 2022 at 12:32:37 UTC, ryuukk_ wrote:
>> Avoid GTK, it's bloated, GTK4 looks like a toolkit to design mobile apps, and you need runtime dependencies on windows
>>
>> adam's gui library is very nice, 0 dependencies
>>
>> I personally prefer IMGUI, 0 dependencies, you bring the
>
>
> could you send me please the link for this lib?
>
>> windowing library of your choice, i pick GLFW since it's minimal
>>
>> IMGUI is fully capable, someone made a Spotify client with it!
>>
>> https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3907907/81094458-d20d9200-8f03-11ea-81e0-e72c0063b3a7.png

There are several bindings.
https://code.dlang.org/search?q=Imgui

On Friday, 20 May 2022 at 12:07:46 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 20 May 2022 at 03:47:14 UTC, harakim wrote:
>> Thank you. I will definitely give that a try.
> But just ask me if something comes up since I can push fixes to master p quickly.

I have been using the minigui library and it's working well for me. Thank you for creating it. I decided to throw together a bar chart, but it has been was more complicated than I gave it credit for. I am breaking it up into multiple nested widgets.

The issue I'm having is that I don't understand how to assign bounds in the nested widget. I'm sure there's a very clean solution. I basically want a paintContent method but with the bounds dynamically assigned by the parent. My thought is:
1. Create a setBounds on the child
2. Call setBounds on the child from inside paintContent of the parent
3. Instead of using paintContent in the child, use paint and use the bounds specified there

but that seems kind of off because I pass the bounds from parent to child separate from having the bounds in the child and it is not intuitive that the bounds would always be set by the parent before the child is painted. If there is a more elegant solution, then I will use it. Otherwise, this solution will work fine with some comments.

On Saturday, 11 June 2022 at 01:20:17 UTC, harakim wrote:
> On Friday, 20 May 2022 at 12:07:46 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
>> On Friday, 20 May 2022 at 03:47:14 UTC, harakim wrote:
>>> Thank you. I will definitely give that a try.
>> But just ask me if something comes up since I can push fixes to master p quickly.
> If there is a more elegant solution, then I will use it. Otherwise, this solution will work fine with some comments.

I tried the solution I suggested and it did not work because the child would occlude the parent (which is in the comments now that I see it.)
I decided to stick to simpledisplay strictly and forgo using the minigui library for the time being, and that is working well.

On Saturday, 11 June 2022 at 01:20:17 UTC, harakim wrote:
> The issue I'm having is that I don't understand how to assign bounds in the nested widget. I'm sure there's a very clean solution. I basically want a paintContent method but with the bounds dynamically assigned by the parent.

Well the bounds given to paintContent just define your content area boundaries, relative to the nested widget. The content area is inside its own border. The actual position is assigned by the parent (the virtual function there is recomputeChildLayout, you can override that to arrange instead of letting it automatically fill the space).



I don't really know what exactly you have in mind for the bounds, but anything outside your widget area is going to be clipped anyway, so I think you really want to change that child layout computation.

On Saturday, 11 June 2022 at 21:44:17 UTC, harakim wrote:
> I tried the solution I suggested and it did not work because the child would occlude the parent (which is in the comments now that I see it.)

yeah minigui's model is to tile the widgets; they aren't supposed to overlap (except their parent, but then they cover the parent)

> I decided to stick to simpledisplay strictly and forgo using the minigui library for the time being, and that is working well.

Yeah, nested widgets are something i sometimes use btu more often then not, i'll make the whole display for a thing - say a graph - just be a single widget and paint it in there.

A simpledisplay window's paint code can generally be pasted into a single minigui widget's paint code without much modification (the minigui WidgetPainter actually is a subclass of simpledisplay's ScreenPainter)

On Saturday, 11 June 2022 at 21:50:47 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote:
> On Saturday, 11 June 2022 at 01:20:17 UTC, harakim wrote:
>> The issue I'm having is that I don't understand how to assign bounds in the nested widget. I'm sure there's a very clean solution. I basically want a paintContent method but with the bounds dynamically assigned by the parent.
>
> Well the bounds given to paintContent just define your content area boundaries, relative to the nested widget. The content area is inside its own border. The actual position is assigned by the parent (the virtual function there is recomputeChildLayout, you can override that to arrange instead of letting it automatically fill the space).

The recomputeChildLayout method is the answer I was looking for.


You describe copying the paint method into the paint content method. I did the exact opposite and copied from the paintContent method to the paint method and it worked. I am getting pretty comfortable with using simple display, but I will probably look to minigui in the future. This application is just for me to use so I don't need interactive buttons and so forth.

Thanks for making these libraries available. I'm also using your sqllite and http2 modules so far. :)