Thread overview
GUI / Linux
Apr 21, 2004
Frank Nole
Apr 21, 2004
J Anderson
Apr 21, 2004
J C Calvarese
Apr 21, 2004
Ant
April 21, 2004
Hi,

I miss some mature gui writing support in D.

DUI "should be considered alpha state". DIG ist "currently only [for] Windows 95+'s". Is there anything more?

Yes, I know it is some hard work to code a complete gui system (with docs). But D needs GUI. Without GUI all those osnews.com and slashdot articles won't help much...

With some working GUI libs available I would instantly switch to D.

fn


April 21, 2004
Frank Nole wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I miss some mature gui writing support in D.
>
>DUI "should be considered alpha state". DIG ist "currently only [for] Windows
>95+'s". Is there anything more?
>
>Yes, I know it is some hard work to code a complete gui system (with docs). But
>D needs GUI. Without GUI all those osnews.com and slashdot articles won't help
>much...
>
>With some working GUI libs available I would instantly switch to D.
>
>fn
>

Why not contribute to http://www.dsource.org/projects/dwt/.  I'm sure that if they get enough people helping out it could be done really soon.

-- 
-Anderson: http://badmama.com.au/~anderson/
April 21, 2004
Frank Nole wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I miss some mature gui writing support in D.
> 
> DUI "should be considered alpha state". DIG ist "currently only [for] Windows
> 95+'s". Is there anything more?

Have you actually tried DUI? Ant's already using it as the base for his LEDS editor. "Alpha" means different things to different people. D itself is still in "beta". If you will only work with final  releases, D isn't ready for you yet.

Large libraries tend to break after every other release of the compiler.  That can't be helped when the compiler is still under development. As things settle down with the Spec (as it will soon, I think), it'll get easier to develop and you might see projects releasing 1.0's.

> Yes, I know it is some hard work to code a complete gui system (with docs). But
> D needs GUI. Without GUI all those osnews.com and slashdot articles won't help
> much...
> 
> With some working GUI libs available I would instantly switch to D.
> 
> fn
> 
> 

-- 
Justin
http://jcc_7.tripod.com/d/
April 21, 2004
In article <c66us6$2mbs$1@digitaldaemon.com>, J C Calvarese says...
>
>Frank Nole wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I miss some mature gui writing support in D.
>> 
>> DUI "should be considered alpha state". DIG ist "currently only [for] Windows 95+'s". Is there anything more?
>
>Have you actually tried DUI? Ant's already using it as the base for his LEDS editor.

DUI is quite usable even if some details are missing.
I'll change the "alpha state" message.

Ant
http://dui.sourceforge.net
http://leds.sourceforge.net