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digitalmars.D.dwt - Thinlet in D?

reply Marcio <mqmnews123 sglebs.com> writes:
I like SWT/DWT, but here's an idea of a small GUI libarry for D 
(embedded?): http://thinlet.sourceforge.net/home.html

Small is beautiful...

marcio
Mar 01 2006
parent reply =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
Marcio wrote:


 I like SWT/DWT, but here's an idea of a small GUI libarry for D 
 (embedded?): http://thinlet.sourceforge.net/home.html



Somehow, I don't think it'll work:

public class Thinlet
extends java.awt.Container


 Small is beautiful...



MinWin might be a bet then ?

--anders
Mar 01 2006
parent reply Marcio <mqmnews123 sglebs.com> writes:
Anders F Bj=F6rklund wrote:

 Somehow, I don't think it'll work:
=20
 public class Thinlet
 extends java.awt.Container




    This is an implementation decision, for Java. In D you don't have to =

do that. It just needs a place to draw things etc. There's a MIDP port=20
of it, for example:

July 15, 2005.  Porsche Engineering  developed a version of Thinlet=20
based on MIDP. The source is available here.



 Small is beautiful...



 MinWin might be a bet then ?




    I was thinking of a multi-platform Thinlet impl, and not something=20
Windoze-specific.

marcio
Mar 01 2006
parent =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Anders_F_Bj=F6rklund?= <afb algonet.se> writes:
Marcio wrote:


 public class Thinlet
 extends java.awt.Container



    This is an implementation decision, for Java. In D you don't have to 
 do that. It just needs a place to draw things etc. 



Okay, didn't mean to be negative before it had even been tried...

But what would provide such a place (and drawing methods), for D ?
Do you mean using something like SDL or GL, or writing new peers ?


 There's a MIDP port of it, for example:
 
 July 15, 2005.  Porsche Engineering  developed a version of Thinlet
 based on MIDP. The source is available here. 



public class Thinlet
extends javax.microedition.lcdui.Canvas

OK.


 Small is beautiful...



 MinWin might be a bet then ?



    I was thinking of a multi-platform Thinlet impl, and not something 
 Windoze-specific.



MinWin is not Windows-only. Stands for "Minimal Window toolkit":

http://home.comcast.net/~benhinkle/minwin/

Then again, it doesn't have a Mac port yet either. Just Win/Linux.

--anders
Mar 01 2006