research.md

DLang Graphics Research

This is an incomplete list of notable libraries related to graphics & ux. The list contains libraries useful for both creating graphical applications and designing your own graphics framework.

Building Blocks

Color

• std.experimental.color https://github.com/TurkeyMan/color

• arsd/color https://github.com/adamdruppe/arsd/blob/master/color.d

• dlib/image/color https://github.com/gecko0307/dlib/blob/master/dlib/image/color.d

Linear Algebra

• gfm/math https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/gfm/tree/master/math/gfm/math

• gl3n https://github.com/Dav1dde/gl3n

• dlib/math https://github.com/gecko0307/dlib/tree/master/dlib/math

Numeric

• sargon/halfloat https://github.com/DigitalMars/sargon/blob/master/src/sargon/halffloat.d
  Docs: https://digitalmars.com/sargon/halffloat.html

• decimal https://github.com/rumbu13/decimal

CPU Intrinsics

• std.simd https://github.com/TurkeyMan/simd

• intel-intrinsics https://github.com/AuburnSounds/intel-intrinsics

• mir-cpuid https://github.com/libmir/mir-cpuid

Constraint Solving & Layout

• Cassowary https://overconstrained.io
  D implementation: https://github.com/yglukhov/cassowary.d

GUI

• Qt https://www.qt.io
  https://github.com/w0rp/dqt
  https://github.com/filcuc/dqml
  https://github.com/MGWL/QtE5

• wxWidgets https://www.wxwidgets.org
  D binding: http://wxd.sourceforge.net

• GTK https://www.gtk.org
  D binding: https://gtkd.org

• Nanogui https://github.com/wjakob/nanogui
  D port: https://github.com/drug007/nanogui

• Nuklear https://github.com/vurtun/nuklear
  D binding: https://github.com/mogud/nukleard
  D binding: https://github.com/Timu5/bindbc-nuklear

• Dear ImGui https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
  D binding: https://github.com/Extrawurst/DerelictImgui
  D binding: https://github.com/0dyl/d-cimgui
  D port: https://github.com/d-gamedev-team/dimgui

• libui https://github.com/andlabs/libui
  D binding: https://github.com/Extrawurst/DerelictLibui
  D wrapper: https://github.com/mogud/libuid

• Tcl/Tk https://www.tcl.tk
  D binding: https://github.com/nomad-software/tcltk
  D port: https://github.com/nomad-software/tkd

• FLTK https://www.fltk.org

• Clutter https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Clutter

• IUP http://iup.sourceforge.net
  D binding: https://github.com/carblue/iup
  D binding: https://bitbucket.org/alphaglosined/libglosined/src/85ab6b2135879848e7efd5f1dfa732f2cfb753f8/iup

• LittlevGL https://littlevgl.com

• Dlang UI https://github.com/buggins/dlangui

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

• DQuick https://github.com/D-Quick/DQuick

• arsd/minigui https://github.com/adamdruppe/arsd/blob/master/minigui.d

• Poison https://github.com/PoisonEngine/poison-ui

• ae/ui https://github.com/CyberShadow/ae/tree/master/ui

Dialogs

• Native File Dialog https://github.com/mlabbe/nativefiledialog

• tinyfiledialogs https://github.com/native-toolkit/tinyfiledialogs
  D port: https://github.com/dayllenger/tinyfiledialogs-d

• Boxer https://github.com/aaronmjacobs/Boxer

Window & Input & Event

• SDL https://www.libsdl.org
  D binding: https://github.com/BindBC/bindbc-sdl

• GLFW https://www.glfw.org
  D binding: https://github.com/BindBC/bindbc-glfw

• libX11 https://www.x.org
  D binding: https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/libX11

• wayland-d https://github.com/rtbo/wayland-d

• SPEW https://github.com/Devisualization/spew

• dplug/window https://github.com/AuburnSounds/Dplug/tree/master/window/dplug/window

• arsd/simpledisplay https://github.com/adamdruppe/arsd/blob/master/simpledisplay.d

Event-Loop

• libev http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html
  D binding: https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/libev

• libuv https://github.com/libuv/libuv
  D binding: https://github.com/raefaldhia/libuv
  D binding: https://github.com/tamediadigital/libuv
  D binding: https://github.com/changloong/libuv

• libevent https://libevent.org
  D binding: https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/libevent

• eventcore https://github.com/vibe-d/eventcore

• liuev https://github.com/troglobit/libuev

• libasync https://github.com/etcimon/libasync

• arsd/eventloop https://github.com/adamdruppe/arsd/blob/master/eventloop.d

• SPEW https://github.com/Devisualization/spew

• subscribed https://github.com/v--/subscribed

Renderer

High-Level

• NanoVG https://github.com/memononen/NanoVG

  • D port: https://github.com/adamdruppe/arsd/blob/master/nanovega.d
    • Docs: http://dpldocs.info/experimental-docs/arsd.nanovega.html
    • Forum: https://forum.dlang.org/thread/yykncywfhvfarrszpqed@forum.dlang.org
  • D binding & wrapper: https://github.com/Pctg-x8/nanovg-d

• Cairo https://www.cairographics.org
  D binding: https://gtkd.org
  D wrapper: https://github.com/cairoD/cairoD
  D binding: https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/cairo

• Skia https://github.com/google/skia

Lower-Level

• OpenGL https://www.opengl.org
  D binding: https://github.com/BindBC/bindbc-opengl

• Vulkan https://www.khronos.org/vulkan
  D binding: https://github.com/ParticlePeter/ErupteD

• DirectX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX
  D binding: https://github.com/auroragraphics/directx
  D binding: https://github.com/evilrat666/directx-d

• bgfx https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx
  D binding: https://github.com/GoaLitiuM/bindbc-bgfx

Image

Image Loading & Saving

• FreeImage http://freeimage.sourceforge.net
  D binding: https://github.com/BindBC/bindbc-freeimage

• stb_image https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stb_image.h

• SDL_image https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image
  D binding: https://github.com/BindBC/bindbc-sdl

• DevIL https://github.com/DentonW/DevIL
  D binding: https://github.com/DerelictOrg/DerelictIL

• libpng http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
  D binding: https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/libpng

• ImageMagick https://imagemagick.org
  D binding: https://github.com/MikeWey/DMagick

• arsd/image https://github.com/adamdruppe/arsd/blob/master/image.d

• dlib/image https://github.com/gecko0307/dlib/tree/master/dlib/image

Image Metadata

• libexif https://github.com/libexif/libexif
  D binding: https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/libexif

Text

Font Loading & Rasterization

• FreeType https://www.freetype.org
  D binding: https://github.com/BindBC/bindbc-freetype

• stb_truetype https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stb_truetype.h
  D port: https://github.com/adamdruppe/arsd/blob/master/stb_truetype.d

• SDL_ttf https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf
  D binding: https://github.com/BindBC/bindbc-sdl

• Glyphy https://github.com/behdad/glyphy

• fontconfig https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig

Text Shaping & Layout

• HarfBuzz https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz
  D binding: https://github.com/DlangGraphicsWG/bindbc-harfbuzz

• Pango https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango
  D binding: https://gtkd.org

• FriBidi https://github.com/fribidi/fribidi

• linebreak https://github.com/s-ludwig/linebreak

Integration

• D-Bus https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/dbus
  D wrapper: https://github.com/trishume/ddbus

• libnotify https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libnotify
  D binding: https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/libnotify

Internationalization (i18n) & Localization (l10n)

• gettext https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext

• djtext https://github.com/o3o/djtext

• i18n-d https://github.com/JakobOvrum/i18n-d

• mofile https://github.com/FreeSlave/mofile

Accesibility

• ATK https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/atk
  D binding: https://gtkd.org

Uncategorized

• Allegro5 https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5
  D binding: https://github.com/DerelictOrg/DerelictAllegro5
  D binding: https://github.com/SiegeLord/DAllegro5

• SFML https://www.sfml-dev.org
  D binding: https://github.com/DerelictOrg/DerelictSFML2
  D binding: https://github.com/Jebbs/DSFML

• ae/utils/graphics https://github.com/CyberShadow/ae/tree/master/utils/graphics