• Zz <zz nospam.com> Apr 04 2011
• Ishan Thilina <ishanthilina gmail.com> Apr 04 2011
• Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes gmail.com> Apr 04 2011
• Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> Apr 04 2011
• Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> Apr 04 2011
• Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> Apr 04 2011

Zz <zz nospam.com> writes:

You can look at IUP which is simple written in C and comes with the MIT licence.

http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/

Zz

Matthias Pleh Wrote:

 On 2011-04-03 21:05, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
 I think it's not too late to improve our GSoC ideas page


 So here come my ideas
 
 
 
 There is still the lack of a good D Gui Library.
 Currently some GUI's are still under development (most projects on 
 dsoure are abandoned!), but none of them are really perfect D-GUI's
 * GtkD -> good and stable, but a D wrapper around a C-library
 * DWT  -> also good, but a port from Java and not really D-like coded
 * DFL  -> windows only, a way too .Net-like, is currently not very 
 active (abandoned?)
 * ... all others I know are unmature and abandoned (tell me, if I'm 
 wrong here!)
 
 So there comes 2 ideas to my mind:
 
 
 - Abstraction Layer for OS independent (Win/Linux/OSX/?) GUI development
    * Just basic structures/functions/classes for Window creation,
    event handling, ...
    This could be used not only by a Standard-D-Gui-library,
    but also by other Gui-libraries for D
 
 - Design of a OS independent GUI-toolkit
    * class-diagramm, basicstuctures, ...
 
 This could be the beginning of a Community-driven development of a good 
 D-GUI-library which eventualy could find its way into phobos ... ?

Ishan Thilina <ishanthilina gmail.com> writes:

Sorry,my project proposal was not visible to the public earlier. It is now can
be
seen by anyone. Sorry for the inconvenience.

My project proposal:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/ishanthilina/1

Christian's project proposal:
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2011/murphy/1

Daniel Gibson <metalcaedes gmail.com> writes:

Am 04.04.2011 17:01, schrieb Zz:
 You can look at IUP which is simple written in C and comes with the MIT
licence.
 
 http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/
 
 Zz
 


This actually looks pretty good (in their gallery).
It lacks native OSX support, though.

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2011-04-04 17:10, Daniel Gibson wrote:
 Am 04.04.2011 17:01, schrieb Zz:
 You can look at IUP which is simple written in C and comes with the MIT
licence.

 http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/

 Zz


 This actually looks pretty good (in their gallery).
 It lacks native OSX support, though.


Looking at the Comparing page: "We plan for the future to build a native 
Carbon driver.". I don't understand why anyone would waste resources on 
Carbon when Cocoa is available.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:

It seems to use some specialized language to create the GUI elements,
or am I wrong? Refering to IUP.

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2011-04-04 17:01, Zz wrote:
 You can look at IUP which is simple written in C and comes with the MIT
licence.

 http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/

 Zz


No Mac OS X support as far as I can see.

 Matthias Pleh Wrote:

 On 2011-04-03 21:05, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
 I think it's not too late to improve our GSoC ideas page


 So here come my ideas



 There is still the lack of a good D Gui Library.
 Currently some GUI's are still under development (most projects on
 dsoure are abandoned!), but none of them are really perfect D-GUI's
 * GtkD ->  good and stable, but a D wrapper around a C-library
 * DWT  ->  also good, but a port from Java and not really D-like coded
 * DFL  ->  windows only, a way too .Net-like, is currently not very
 active (abandoned?)
 * ... all others I know are unmature and abandoned (tell me, if I'm
 wrong here!)

 So there comes 2 ideas to my mind:


 - Abstraction Layer for OS independent (Win/Linux/OSX/?) GUI development
     * Just basic structures/functions/classes for Window creation,
     event handling, ...
     This could be used not only by a Standard-D-Gui-library,
     but also by other Gui-libraries for D

 - Design of a OS independent GUI-toolkit
     * class-diagramm, basicstuctures, ...

 This could be the beginning of a Community-driven development of a good
 D-GUI-library which eventualy could find its way into phobos ... ?






-- 
/Jacob Carlborg