dwtlib ~master

dwtlib - Alternate DUB package for the D Widget Toolkit

DWT is a library for creating cross-platform GUI applications. It's a port of the SWT Java library from Eclipse.

dwtlib is a dub package repository for DWT.

Status

WORKING and tested on:

- Windows 10 Home  32-bit and 64-bit
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 32-bit and 64-bit
- DMD32 D Compiler v2.074.0, DUB version 1.3.0

Building (refer to doc/dlang-install)

1. Install DMD (includes DUB)

   • Browse to http://dlang.org/
   • Click to download the lastest version
   • Click to download the latest version (e.g. 2.074.0)
   • Open with Software install (Ubuntu)
   • Install

   Check Version

   $ dmd --version
   DMD32 D Compiler vX.XX.X
   
   $ dub --version
   DUB version X.X.X
   
   

   Quick Test

   $ rdmd examples/console/hello.d
   
   

2. Fetch the DUB package

   $ dub fetch dwtlib
   
   

3. Get the linux libraries (no extra libs required for Windows):

   $ cd /home/<USER>/.dub/packages/dwtlib-X.X.X/dwtlib/tools/get-libs
   $ cd /home/<USER>/.dub/packages/dwtlib-3.1.1/dwtlib/tools/get-libs
   
   $ bash ./get-libs.sh
   
   

4. Build the DWT static libraries:

   $ cd /home/<USER>/.dub/packages/dwtlib-X.X.X/dwtlib
   
   $ dub fetch dwtlib
   $ cd /home/<USER>/.dub/packages/dwtlib-3.1.1/dwtlib
   
   Ubuntu  32-bit and 64-bit: $ bash ./build_dwtlib.bat
   Windows 32-bit           : $ build_dwtlib.bat
   Windows 64-bit           : $ build_dwtlib_m64.bat
   
   $ cd ../examples
   
   Ubuntu : $ bash ./example.sh
   Windows: $ example.bat
   
   

5. Add a dependency to your app's dub.json or dub.sdl, see the examples.

   dependency "dwtlib" version=">=3.1.1"
   
   

Snippets

Run Snippets in the examples folder:

$ example_console
    $ example_gui
    $ snippets_demo
    $ widgets_demo (this demo currently works on Windows only)

Or, run Snippets using rdub in the examples folder:

$ rdmd rdub snippets\Snippet251 --force

Here is a screenshot of the widgets_demo (a simplified version of the SWT controlexample):