Hello,

I'm working on native Cocoa backend for DlangUI GUI library under OSX.
Is there any ready to use bindings for easy accessing Cocoa API?
Probably, there is some HelloWorld program which creates window and draws something?


Best regards,
     Vadim

V Wed, 11 Nov 2015 06:17:00 +0000
Vadim Lopatin via Digitalmars-d-learn
<digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> napsáno:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm working on native Cocoa backend for DlangUI GUI library under
> OSX.
> Is there any ready to use bindings for easy accessing Cocoa API?
> Probably, there is some HelloWorld program which creates window
> and draws something?
> 
> 
> Best regards,
>       Vadim

I find only this one: http://code.dlang.org/packages/derelict-cocoa

On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 09:29:47 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:
> V Wed, 11 Nov 2015 06:17:00 +0000
> Vadim Lopatin via Digitalmars-d-learn
> <digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> napsáno:
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'm working on native Cocoa backend for DlangUI GUI library under
>> OSX.
>> Is there any ready to use bindings for easy accessing Cocoa API?
>> Probably, there is some HelloWorld program which creates window
>> and draws something?
>> 
>> 
>> Best regards,
>>       Vadim
>
> I find only this one: http://code.dlang.org/packages/derelict-cocoa

Me too.
It looks promising.
I'll try to use it.

On 2015-11-11 10:29, Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:

> I find only this one: http://code.dlang.org/packages/derelict-cocoa

I would recommend creating new bindings which use the new Objective-C interoperability feature that was added in the latest release (2.069.0).

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On 2015-11-11 17:02, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

> I would recommend creating new bindings which use the new Objective-C
> interoperability feature that was added in the latest release (2.069.0).

You could use DStep [1] to generate the bindings. It will generate bindings which are not completely compatible with what the compiler can handle. But it can be used as a base.

[1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On 2015-11-11 10:29, Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:

> I find only this one: http://code.dlang.org/packages/derelict-cocoa

Also, there's no point in complicate the bindings by using function pointers like this.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 16:04:44 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-11-11 17:02, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>
>> I would recommend creating new bindings which use the new Objective-C
>> interoperability feature that was added in the latest release (2.069.0).
>
> You could use DStep [1] to generate the bindings. It will generate bindings which are not completely compatible with what the compiler can handle. But it can be used as a base.
>
> [1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep

That's interesting. Let me try.
Thank you!

On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 16:04:44 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-11-11 17:02, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>
>> I would recommend creating new bindings which use the new Objective-C
>> interoperability feature that was added in the latest release (2.069.0).
>
> You could use DStep [1] to generate the bindings. It will generate bindings which are not completely compatible with what the compiler can handle. But it can be used as a base.
>
> [1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep

Aren't there any ready set of translated and post-processed files for main OSX foundations in some repository? Could you point at it?

On Thursday, 12 November 2015 at 05:50:09 UTC, Vadim Lopatin wrote:
> On Wednesday, 11 November 2015 at 16:04:44 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2015-11-11 17:02, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>
>>> I would recommend creating new bindings which use the new Objective-C
>>> interoperability feature that was added in the latest release (2.069.0).
>>
>> You could use DStep [1] to generate the bindings. It will generate bindings which are not completely compatible with what the compiler can handle. But it can be used as a base.
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep
>
> Aren't there any ready set of translated and post-processed files for main OSX foundations in some repository? Could you point at it?

That's doubtful. OS X interoperability is pretty new. If anyone has done any bindings like what you want I don't think they've announced it.

On 2015-11-12 06:50, Vadim Lopatin wrote:

> Aren't there any ready set of translated and post-processed files for
> main OSX foundations in some repository? Could you point at it?

I have these 6 years old bindings [1] which uses an old Objective-C bridge. Perhaps it's possible to do some search-and-replace to convert the bindings to use the new Objective-C support.

There's the Dive Framework [2] as well. It uses a fork of the compiler which has all the Objective-C interoperability features that the upstream compiler will eventually have.

[1] http://dsource.org/projects/dstep/browser/dstep
[2] https://github.com/DiveFramework/DiveFramework

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg