Lo,
New to D, looking for something different from .Net(caught you all) and Java, I couldn't find a great deal of documentation about win programming in D, does this mean the dreaded win32 API is the only way to go or is there a VB(Virus Basic) type IDE with a nice forms designer or something?

I like the concepts of D, and even the syntax most of the time, and particularly bit manipulation.

I don't quite see D as an increment to C++ more an increment to C, D is very capable it seems of offering a reasonable alternative to C for even low level programming and even more OO than C++.
I have been browsing the wiki, but would like to know any types of forms designer type IDE available for D either free or commercially.
Ta

DFL is the only GUI library that I know of that has a Form designer. It is probably the one you should use coming from a .NET background, becuase the class structure is based on WindowsForms.Net

RT wrote:
> Lo,
> New to D, looking for something different from .Net(caught you all) and Java, I couldn't find a great deal of documentation about win programming in D, does this mean the dreaded win32 API is the only way to go or is there a VB(Virus Basic) type IDE with a nice forms designer or something?
> 
> I like the concepts of D, and even the syntax most of the time, and particularly bit manipulation.
> 
> I don't quite see D as an increment to C++ more an increment to C, D is very capable it seems of offering a reasonable alternative to C for even low level programming and even more OO than C++.
> I have been browsing the wiki, but would like to know any types of forms designer type IDE available for D either free or commercially.
> Ta

Hi,
Kyle Furlong wrote:
> DFL is the only GUI library that I know of that has a Form designer. It is probably the one you should use coming from a .NET background, becuase the class structure is based on WindowsForms.Net

Thanks, what about IDE/Code editors?
Does D support Unit tests?
Ta

There isnt a single best IDE solution for D yet. I use Crimson Editor with syntax hilighting and custom tools. I highly recommend Derek Parnell's Build tool which you can find on www.dsource.org. As for unittesting, some functionality is builtin.
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/class.html#unittest

RT wrote:
> Hi,
> Kyle Furlong wrote:
> 
>> DFL is the only GUI library that I know of that has a Form designer. It is probably the one you should use coming from a .NET background, becuase the class structure is based on WindowsForms.Net
> 
> 
> Thanks, what about IDE/Code editors?
> Does D support Unit tests?
> Ta

On Wed, 08 Jun 2005 00:20:02 +0100, RT <RT.who@nobody.org> wrote:
> Kyle Furlong wrote:
>> DFL is the only GUI library that I know of that has a Form designer. It is probably the one you should use coming from a .NET background, becuase the class structure is based on WindowsForms.Net
>
> Thanks, what about IDE/Code editors?

http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?EditorSupport

> Does D support Unit tests?

Yes. There really should be a top level (contents) link on the digitalmars page, but there isn't.

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/class.html#unittest

you can place unittest blocks at module level also. (I couldn't find the docs on this specifically)

Regan

On 8/06/2005 9:34 AM, Kyle Furlong wrote:
> There isnt a single best IDE solution for D yet. I use Crimson Editor with syntax hilighting and custom tools. I highly recommend Derek Parnell's Build tool which you can find on www.dsource.org.

Kyle, thanks for the Crimson + Build tip. It prompted me to take another look at Crimson and it's quite good (be nice if it had code folding though). What are the other 'custom tools' you were referring to, or was that just to do with Crimson's inbuilt capabilities?

Brian.

Yes, I was talking about the crimson tool functionality. Glad I could be a help.

Brian Hay wrote:
> On 8/06/2005 9:34 AM, Kyle Furlong wrote:
> 
>> There isnt a single best IDE solution for D yet. I use Crimson Editor with syntax hilighting and custom tools. I highly recommend Derek Parnell's Build tool which you can find on www.dsource.org.
> 
> 
> Kyle, thanks for the Crimson + Build tip. It prompted me to take another look at Crimson and it's quite good (be nice if it had code folding though). What are the other 'custom tools' you were referring to, or was that just to do with Crimson's inbuilt capabilities?
> 
> Brian.

I just tried PSPad, first impressions, I like it, still trying to figure if I can compile using PSPad.
laters
RT

Found another cool editor, I don't think it nativley supports D, but might be easy enough to sort.

Check out
http://cedit.sourceforge.net/index.php