I was just porting some JFace snippets to try to get a better feel for how it works and what it can do.  And all I can say is ugh.  It's just waaaaay too Java-esque for D.  Absolutely everything is an interface that casts every bit of data it handles to and from Object.  Ick.

Some sort of slightly more D-ish way to wrap and enhance DWT would sure be nice.  Something that takes advantage of D's templates instead of casting all over the place.

--bb

Bill Baxter schrieb:
> I was just porting some JFace snippets to try to get a better feel for how it works and what it can do.  And all I can say is ugh.  It's just waaaaay too Java-esque for D.  Absolutely everything is an interface that casts every bit of data it handles to and from Object.  Ick.
> 
> Some sort of slightly more D-ish way to wrap and enhance DWT would sure be nice.  Something that takes advantage of D's templates instead of casting all over the place.
> 
> --bb

For such, we sure do not need to change the name ;)

Do you have concrete suggestions how to do that?

Frank Benoit wrote:
> Bill Baxter schrieb:
>> I was just porting some JFace snippets to try to get a better feel for how it works and what it can do.  And all I can say is ugh.  It's just waaaaay too Java-esque for D.  Absolutely everything is an interface that casts every bit of data it handles to and from Object.  Ick.
>>
>> Some sort of slightly more D-ish way to wrap and enhance DWT would sure be nice.  Something that takes advantage of D's templates instead of casting all over the place.
>>
>> --bb
> 
> For such, we sure do not need to change the name ;)
> 
> Do you have concrete suggestions how to do that?

My approach would probably be to try to build something mirroring Qt's API as closely possible using DWT as the platform-independent implementation layer.  With a dose of opApplys and delegates and/or function alias templates.

--bb

Bill Baxter schrieb:
> Frank Benoit wrote:
>> Bill Baxter schrieb:
>>> I was just porting some JFace snippets to try to get a better feel for how it works and what it can do.  And all I can say is ugh.  It's just waaaaay too Java-esque for D.  Absolutely everything is an interface that casts every bit of data it handles to and from Object.  Ick.
>>>
>>> Some sort of slightly more D-ish way to wrap and enhance DWT would sure be nice.  Something that takes advantage of D's templates instead of casting all over the place.
>>>
>>> --bb
>>
>> For such, we sure do not need to change the name ;)
>>
>> Do you have concrete suggestions how to do that?
> 
> My approach would probably be to try to build something mirroring Qt's API as closely possible using DWT as the platform-independent implementation layer.  With a dose of opApplys and delegates and/or function alias templates.
> 
> --bb

Oh, you mean instead jface, implement something completely new?
Sounds like a lot of work.

I thought it might perhaps be possible to add some helper to JFace to make it feel more D-like.