RE: wxWindows finally compiled
> From: jbrown1050 at hotpop.com [mailto:jbrown1050 at hotpop.com]
> wxWindows has finished compiling.
>
> I have used nm and gotten the lists, of mangled and demangled
> symbols, needed
> to port wxWindows to Euphoria.
Excellent. I've updated my page with what I've done so far. I've
simplified a lot of stuff, and I think come up with a decent way to make
this whole cross platform deal work reasonably well. I also included a
couple of little utilities I wrote (one requires Kat's strtok 2.1) to wrap
the constants for import. They're called wrap.exw and extract.exw. wrap
puts them into the form you see in wxDefsMSW.ew, assuming they're in a tab
delimited file. If you use this, you'll probably have to fiddle with it
depending on how the unmangled names are given. extract pulls out all the
imports for a given class, and writes them to extract.txt, where it's easy
to cut and paste.
You'll need to write a .eu file corresponding to all the .ew files, which
should include all constant definitions, platform dependent code, and then
should include the respective .e file.
Of particular interest, I think, is the create() function in wxEuphoria.e.
It allows for flexible creation of objects, so that it's not necessary to
define a special create routines for each object, unless you use optional
parameters (see wxWindow: new_wxWindow, new_wxFrame ). Also, the
initialization stuff in cplusplus.e needs to be fixed. Since its pretty
small, I think changing from constants to atoms, and using platform() in an
if statement should be sufficient.
There is no documentation yet, as I'd like to get some additional input from
others on how to proceed before documenting all this stuff. Then, I think
I'll start porting the win32lib examples, wrapping additional classes along
the way. Also, I think I may want to change the way classes are defined
slightly. I'm thinking it's not necessary to define the pointer to the vtbl
and stuff.
Matt Lewis
http://www14.brinkster.com/matthewlewis/projects.html
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