Re: Swig for Euphoria
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) Mar 05, 2009
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Matt, why not use swig to wrap wxWidgets?
The C code of wxEuphoria does more than simply provide a C interface. It also converts data types (especially sequences to wxStrings). There are some things that are easier to do with C than with euphoria code when dealing with wxWidgets, and that's where the hand-written C comes in.
At one point, I did look at using Swig, but I couldn't figure out an easy way to get it to do what I wanted (I don't recall the details at this point).
Also, wxWidgets (being C) is object-oriented, while Euphoria is not. wxEuphoria removes the "object-oriented-ness" from wxWidgets by abstracting it to regular functions and pointer-variables. I think this would be harder to do with SWIG, at least without ending up with a bunch of wxObjectName_FunctionName() type routines. There's quite a few all-in-one routines in wxEuphoria, like get/set_selection().
I may not be [much of] a C programmer, but I can certainly appreciate the hand-coded abstraction in wxEuphoria. 
-Greg
