Kheops

Kheops is an attempt to create a vectorial GUI framework, based on Cairo and written in D. It's also a test ground for the iz library to the extent that Kheops helps much to detect bugs or errors that don't happen in D unittests.

Setup

Only linux is suported. The development version of x11, cairo and freetype must be setup (they are statically linked).

• DUB CLI:
  • dub build
  • as examples, most of the runnables includes a SDL receipt so that they can be launched with dub <fname.d>
• Coedit:
  • opens the dub.json as a project, compiles the project and register it in the library manager.
  • the examples can only be run with Run DUB single file package, unless the other dependencies (imagesformats, x11 and iz) are registered in the libman.

How it looks

Todo

• serialization: the iz serializer must be finished.
• plenty of X lib related things (clipboard, proper keyboard handling, etc.)
• menus: essential step so that a visual designer can be implemented.
• controls: button, labels, listview, etc.
• styles: they rely on the three previous steps.
• Windows port: development with static libraries is so much easier on Linux !