• Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> May 19 2008
• Frank Benoit <keinfarbton googlemail.com> May 19 2008
• Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> May 19 2008
• Frank Benoit <keinfarbton googlemail.com> May 19 2008

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

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

Frank Benoit <keinfarbton googlemail.com> writes:

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?

Bill Baxter <dnewsgroup billbaxter.com> writes:

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

Frank Benoit <keinfarbton googlemail.com> writes:

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.