• Gary Willoughby (4/4) Oct 12 2015 If I was writing a screensaver in D what libraries are available
• Gary Willoughby (3/7) Oct 12 2015 I've found Dgame which looks surprisingly good.
• welkam (3/7) Oct 12 2015 You will need to interface to C libraries like SDL. There are
• Adam D. Ruppe (8/9) Oct 12 2015 Not necessarily any beyond the operating system libs. In fact,
• Adam D. Ruppe (7/10) Oct 12 2015 My simpledisplay.d might be able to do it but it doesn't fully

Gary Willoughby <dev nomad.so> writes:

If I was writing a screensaver in D what libraries are available 
for opening a window and drawing sprites, etc on it. GPU 
accelerated if possible.

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and latest DMD compiler.

Gary Willoughby <dev nomad.so> writes:

On Monday, 12 October 2015 at 19:16:10 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
 If I was writing a screensaver in D what libraries are 
 available for opening a window and drawing sprites, etc on it. 
 GPU accelerated if possible.

 I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and latest DMD compiler.

I've found Dgame which looks surprisingly good.

http://rswhite.de/dgame5/?page=tutorial

welkam <wwwelkam gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 12 October 2015 at 19:16:10 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
 If I was writing a screensaver in D what libraries are 
 available for opening a window and drawing sprites, etc on it. 
 GPU accelerated if possible.

 I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and latest DMD compiler.

You will need to interface to C libraries like SDL. There are 
bidings for it on DUB called derelict-sdl2

Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 12 October 2015 at 23:24:56 UTC, welkam wrote:
 You will need to interface to C libraries like SDL.

Not necessarily any beyond the operating system libs. In fact, 
for a screensaver, you might want to use lower level calls. I 
don't know how they are made anymore, but in Windows 95 (showing 
my knowledge's age...) there were a few special screen saver 
functions you needed to implement for it to be recognized by the 
properties sheet.

I don't know about Ubuntu at all though.

Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 12 October 2015 at 19:16:10 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
 If I was writing a screensaver in D what libraries are 
 available for opening a window and drawing sprites, etc on it. 
 GPU accelerated if possible.


My simpledisplay.d might be able to do it but it doesn't fully 
wrap stuff like full screen windows yet (it isn't hard to use the 
platform-specific functions to ask for one though).

https://github.com/adamdruppe/arsd

simpledisplay.d and color.d

WIP docs here http://arsdnet.net/arsd/simpledisplay.html