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digitalmars.D.learn - Building GUI projects with D

reply karis njiru <vckaris gmail.com> writes:
Hi. Am a computer science student from Kenya and decided to use D 
for my class project on Principles of Programming Languages. Am 
having a lot of fun with D but have come across an issue. I have 
been using Visual D for the past 2 months for my coding but after 
a lot of research i found out that i cannot build GUI projects 
with visual D. So i took on Entice Designer which for the past 
week has been a nightmare for me to compile my code error being 
the system cannot find the path in the command prompt specified. 
I have installed DMD and DFL lots of times but there is still the 
same issue. Please help
Oct 20 2018
next sibling parent ezneh <petitv.isat gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 20 October 2018 at 15:40:07 UTC, karis njiru wrote:

 Hi. Am a computer science student from Kenya and decided to use 
 D for my class project on Principles of Programming Languages. 
 Am having a lot of fun with D but have come across an issue. I 
 have been using Visual D for the past 2 months for my coding 
 but after a lot of research i found out that i cannot build GUI 
 projects with visual D. So i took on Entice Designer which for 
 the past week has been a nightmare for me to compile my code 
 error being the system cannot find the path in the command 
 prompt specified. I have installed DMD and DFL lots of times 
 but there is still the same issue. Please help


DFL is quite old and unmaintained since a long time too. So it's 
not surprising you have lots of errors when you try to build it 
with recent compilers.

However, there are other GUI projects available for D, as you can 
see here [1]
In this list you can try few of them, but keep in mind some might 
still have similar problems (DFL is still listed on this list).

Maybe you can give a try to dlangui[2]


[1] https://wiki.dlang.org/GUI_Libraries
[2] https://github.com/buggins/dlangui
Oct 20 2018
prev sibling next sibling parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2018-10-20 17:40, karis njiru wrote:

 Hi. Am a computer science student from Kenya and decided to use D for my
 class project on Principles of Programming Languages. Am having a lot of
 fun with D but have come across an issue. I have been using Visual D for
 the past 2 months for my coding but after a lot of research i found out
 that i cannot build GUI projects with visual D. So i took on Entice
 Designer which for the past week has been a nightmare for me to compile
 my code error being the system cannot find the path in the command
 prompt specified. I have installed DMD and DFL lots of times but there
 is still the same issue. Please help


Give DWT [1] a try. It's a port of the Eclipse SWT library from Java to 
D. It's completely written in D and uses the native drawing operations 
of the OS giving the applications a native look and feel.

[1] http://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/dwt

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Oct 21 2018
prev sibling next sibling parent dangbinghoo <dangbinghoo gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 20 October 2018 at 15:40:07 UTC, karis njiru wrote:

 Hi. Am a computer science student from Kenya and decided to use 
 D for my class project on Principles of Programming Languages. 
 Am having a lot of fun with D but have come across an issue. I 
 have been using Visual D for the past 2 months for my coding 
 but after a lot of research i found out that i cannot build GUI 
 projects with visual D. So i took on Entice Designer which for 
 the past week has been a nightmare for me to compile my code 
 error being the system cannot find the path in the command 
 prompt specified. I have installed DMD and DFL lots of times 
 but there is still the same issue. Please help


try GtkD or dlangui(UTF8 support is not complete, font rendering 
is a little bad.) or tkd
Oct 21 2018
prev sibling parent aberba <karabutaworld gmail.com> writes:
On Saturday, 20 October 2018 at 15:40:07 UTC, karis njiru wrote:

 Hi. Am a computer science student from Kenya and decided to use 
 D for my class project on Principles of Programming Languages. 
 Am having a lot of fun with D but have come across an issue. I 
 have been using Visual D for the past 2 months for my coding 
 but after a lot of research i found out that i cannot build GUI 
 projects with visual D. So i took on Entice Designer which for 
 the past week has been a nightmare for me to compile my code 
 error being the system cannot find the path in the command 
 prompt specified. I have installed DMD and DFL lots of times 
 but there is still the same issue. Please help


Hi, Nice meeting you. I assume your on Window.


There

1. DlangUI which is the easiest (for beginners) in my experience: 
https://github.com/buggins/dlangui

2. QT (great documentation): 
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/leviwswvvcnqberafxsp forum.dlang.org#post-nk9alu:241tvq:241:40digitalmars.com

3. GTK-d would be what you'll use if on Linux:
https://github.com/gtkd-developers/GtkD/wiki/Installing-on-Windows



By the way, I'm from Ghana. Its good to know someone in Kenya is 
interested in D. You may hit me by email karabutaworld gmail.com 
(Github: https://github.com/aberba)
Nov 02 2018