1. its time for Win32Lib mailing list
I envy the time, energy and talent that is now devoted Win32Lib. And
frankly, as a Linux user, I am jealous -would love to see such effort and
talent toward a Linux, or closs platform GUI library. Someone mentioned an
E Group mailing list a while back. I think this is the solution to the
bourgeoning glut of Win32Lib **development** posts. And I think that the
Win32Lib development folks should really consider this rather than
communicating directly with each other.
Ken
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2. Re: its time for Win32Lib mailing list
Kenneth Rhodes wrote:
> I envy the time, energy and talent that is now
> devoted Win32Lib. And frankly, as a Linux user,
> I am jealous - would love to see such effort and
talent toward a Linux, or closs platform GUI library.
I spent a couple months trying to write a Euphoria module for SWIG, and
getting wxWindows to work as a DLL for Euphoria. Unfortunately, much of that
time was spent unproductively struggling with the Borland compiler, which
had been released with some serious linking bugs.
I'd love to hear from anyone is interested in helping me with wxWindows. It
doesn't matter if you are running Windows or Linux. Unfortunately, C/C++
experience is mandatory.
Please respond to this list. If there is enough interest, we can move this
to private e-mail and leave Jiri (and the rest of the list) in peace.
Thanks!
-- David Cuny
3. Re: its time for Win32Lib mailing list
> I spent a couple months trying to write a Euphoria module for SWIG, and
> getting wxWindows to work as a DLL for Euphoria. Unfortunately, much of
that
> time was spent unproductively struggling with the Borland compiler, which
> had been released with some serious linking bugs.
>
> I'd love to hear from anyone is interested in helping me with wxWindows.
It
> doesn't matter if you are running Windows or Linux. Unfortunately, C/C++
> experience is mandatory.
>
> Please respond to this list. If there is enough interest, we can move this
> to private e-mail and leave Jiri (and the rest of the list) in peace.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- David Cuny
Hi David,
I have been interested in wxWindows (as well as Allegro) at different times
and have given up on both of them basically before even starting!!!!
What types of things are you after help with?
Obviously C++ is required, which I have a little knowledge off (probably not
enough to be a big help). I have done a few little things in C before and
basically know OOP programming techniques.
I have a book here I haven't read yet about C++ so it might give me some
incentive.
If I can be of any assistance just let me know.
Regards,
Ray Smith
P.S. Have you seen the Python Qt wrappers?
They look very good and can be used on Win32 for free.
I don't know how they manged that deal!
It also comes with a form desingner and looks excellent.
4. Re: its time for Win32Lib mailing list
Ray Smith wrote:
> What types of things are you after
> help with?
It would be nice if I were to use the *real* version of SWIG, which I've
pretty much given up being able to use. My code crashes and burns when it
calls stdio, so I suspect that something's either terribly wrong with my
machine, or I don't have a clue what I'm doing (the second is quite likely).
If you were comfortable with makefiles, it would be nice if I could find out
where my SWIG code goes wrong.
Since I've had so many problems with SWIG, I've recoded my own version of
SWIG in Euphoria. It's a lot less powerful (handles less syntax), but it can
handle most of the wxPython SWIG files, with a bit of editing. It also takes
care of having to deal with much C++, which is nice.
> Obviously C++ is required, which I have a little
> knowledge of...
C++ is probably not all that important - C skills are far more helpful. I
already have a fairly good idea how to cast C++ code in 'flat' C code. I get
lost when I need to do stuff like pass callbacks to functions as parameters,
or call those functions from C using the parameters. This sort of thing gets
dicey with syntax, and I get lost real easily. I can *cast* the pointers
from Euphoria, it's just a matter of getting the pointers cast back to
functions in C.
> P.S. Have you seen the Python Qt wrappers?
> http://www.thekompany.com/projects/pykde/index.php3?dhtml_ok=1
>
> They look very good and can be used on Win32 for free.
> I don't know how they manged that deal!
Yeah, I saw that. Apparently some people at Trolltech really like them.
I'm a bit curious how they got around the issues of the MOC pre-processor,
but haven't really been that tempted to look at the wrappers.
-- David Cuny
