Deft — Native GUI Framework for D

Build native, accessible desktop GUIs in the D programming language. Real platform controls, a delegate-based event system, and box & grid layouts.

Platforms

Deft is in active development, moving quickly toward its 1.0 release. Version 1.0 targets Windows; macOS (Cocoa) and Linux (GTK) are planned for future versions.

  • Windows (Win32) — available
  • macOS (Cocoa) — planned
  • Linux (GTK) — planned

Features

  • Automatic box layout (HBox and VBox) and table layout (Grid) that recalculate on resize
  • A full set of native controls — labels, buttons, text fields, list, tree, and combo views, tabs, a status bar, menus with keyboard accelerators, a system-tray icon, and native dialogs
  • A delegate-based event system for clean, modern event handling
  • A small, modern D API with deterministic teardown and no Phobos dependency
  • Screen-reader accessibility for free — standard platform controls work with JAWS and NVDA, no custom accessibility layer needed

Installation

Add Deft to your project with dub:

dub add deft

Requirements

  • A D compiler — DMD 2.112 or later, or a recent LDC
  • dub (ships with the compiler)

Source Code and Support

Deft is open-source software licensed under the Boost Software License 1.0.

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