https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/dwt

A library for creating cross-platform GUI applications.
https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/dwt

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A library for creating cross-platform GUI applications.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/dwt
• Owner: d-widget-toolkit
• Created: 2011-10-16T15:19:18.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-09-19T11:28:36.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-05T01:11:15.678Z (4 months ago)
• Language: D
• Homepage:
• Size: 3.41 MB
• Stars: 141
• Watchers: 20
• Forks: 33
• Open Issues: 15
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.markdown

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README

        
## DWT - D Widget Toolkit

DWT is a library for creating cross-platform GUI applications.

It's a port of the [SWT](http://www.eclipse.org/swt) Java library from Eclipse.

Current supported platforms are Windows, using Win32 and Linux, using GTK.

## Usage

1. Install all the [requirements](#requirements)

1. Enter the following code in a file called `main.d`:

    ```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();

    }

    ```

1. 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](org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets) which

contains a bunch of the official SWT snippets ported to D.

## 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