Dwt
A library for creating cross-platform GUI applications.
Install / Use
/learn @d-widget-toolkit/DwtREADME
DWT - D Widget Toolkit
DWT is a library for creating cross-platform GUI applications. It's a port of the SWT Java library from Eclipse. Current supported platforms are Windows, using Win32 and Linux, using GTK.
Usage
-
Install all the requirements
-
Enter the following code in a file called
main.d:/+ dub.sdl: name "main" dependency "dwt" version="~>1.0.0" libs \ "atk-1.0" \ "cairo" \ "dl" \ "fontconfig" \ "gdk-x11-2.0" \ "gdk_pixbuf-2.0" \ "glib-2.0" \ "gmodule-2.0" \ "gnomeui-2" \ "gnomevfs-2" \ "gobject-2.0" \ "gthread-2.0" \ "gtk-x11-2.0" \ "pango-1.0" \ "pangocairo-1.0" \ "X11" \ "Xcomposite" \ "Xcursor" \ "Xdamage" \ "Xext" \ "Xfixes" \ "Xi" \ "Xinerama" \ "Xrandr" \ "Xrender" \ "Xtst" \ platform="linux" +/ module main; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell; void main () { auto display = new Display; auto shell = new Shell; shell.open(); while (!shell.isDisposed) if (!display.readAndDispatch()) display.sleep(); display.dispose(); } -
Build and run by running:
dub --single main.d
Build all the Snippets
$ dub --single tools/build_snippets.d
Documentation
For documentation, see any existing documentation or examples for SWT. See also the snippets which contains a bunch of the official SWT snippets ported to D.
<a id="requirements"></a>Requirements
Windows
All required files are included in the repository.
Linux
For Ubuntu, use the packages below. For other systems use the corresponding packages available in the system package manager.
- libcairo2-dev
- libglib2.0-dev
- libgnomeui-dev
- libgtk2.0-dev
- libpango1.0-dev
- libxcomposite-dev
- libxcursor-dev
- libxdamage-dev
- libxfixes-dev
- libxi-dev
- libxinerama-dev
- libxrandr-dev
- libxtst-dev
