• Sai (9/9) Jun 09 2006 I wish I could help DWT, but I have no idea of how GUI works, I just kno...
• BCS (6/20) Jun 09 2006 IUP (http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/) uses the native GUI API,
• Charles D Hixson (15/29) Jun 09 2006 Well, there's gtk-server. It appears to work via tcp/ip

Sai <Sai_member pathlink.com> writes:

I wish I could help DWT, but I have no idea of how GUI works, I just know enough
to use them. 

So, any news / future directions for DWT ? I am getting worried as DWT and DMD
are getting more and more out of sync.

What would the community recommend for DWT alternative ? Do you have any
personal favourites / suggestions for another stable GUI lib for :D ?

Thanks for your time
User
Sai

BCS <BCS pathlink.com> writes:

Sai wrote:
 I wish I could help DWT, but I have no idea of how GUI works, I just know
enough
 to use them. 
 
 So, any news / future directions for DWT ? I am getting worried as DWT and DMD
 are getting more and more out of sync.
 
 What would the community recommend for DWT alternative ? Do you have any
 personal favourites / suggestions for another stable GUI lib for :D ?
 
 Thanks for your time
 User
 Sai
 
 

IUP (http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/) uses the native GUI API, 
exposes a portable pure C API and runs through htod as is. I haven't 
built anything from it because it has a pile of string constants that 
htod won't convert (Walter, that was a feature request) so an automatic 
D port is not yet possible.

Charles D Hixson <charleshixsn earthlink.net> writes:

Sai wrote:
 I wish I could help DWT, but I have no idea of how GUI works, I just know
enough
 to use them. 
 
 So, any news / future directions for DWT ? I am getting worried as DWT and DMD
 are getting more and more out of sync.
 
 What would the community recommend for DWT alternative ? Do you have any
 personal favourites / suggestions for another stable GUI lib for :D ?
 
 Thanks for your time
 User
 Sai
 
 

Well, there's gtk-server.  It appears to work via tcp/ip
connections (among others).  I've tested it from Python on
Linux, and it appears to work as advertised.  Unfortunately,
it doesn't implement all of the controls that I would need,
so I'd need to build them.  (It looks like a simple job of
editing the gtk-server.cfg file, but I'm looking for an
easier solution ... besides, I don't know how
well-maintained the project is.)

If dmd would link to *.so files, then I would probably say
"Well, if it stops working, then I can just convert the
program to calls via a c interface.", but since it
doesn't... I'm currently planning to spend some time looking
at mono, and if that doesn't pan out experimenting with
threads in Python, or possibly even Java.