Re:Libui: GUI library in C
by radarsat1 on Friday May 20, 2016 @10:23AM
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Actually SWT was one of the most pleasant experiences I've had coding GUI stuff. I always found it such a shame that it's only possible to use within the Java ecosystem. I really wanted an interface to the SWT binary libraries from other languages, I looked into it but it seemed intractable to port. If this library takes a similar approach it's probably doing something right.
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Re:Libui: GUI library in C
by mwcampbell on Saturday May 21, 2016 @01:37PM
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SWT itself is written in Java. The native libraries are super-thin JNI wrappers for the underlying OS APIs.
I did a project last year where I wanted to use SWT, but I wanted to write the program in Python, and use CPython rather than Jython so I could have access to C extension modules like lxml. So I hacked up a solution using the Avian lightweight JVM and the pyjnius JNI-based Python/JVM bridge from the Kivy project. I should release that sometime.