digitalmars.D - Another GUI alternative?
- Nilo (10/10) Apr 17 2006 Hi all,
- clayasaurus (4/7) Apr 17 2006 Yes.
- Nilo (7/14) Apr 17 2006 What are the steps involved in creating a wrapper from C++? Is there a s...
- clayasaurus (44/65) Apr 17 2006 #1) First compile a foktk.lib of this library with DMC.
- Nilo (7/72) Apr 17 2006 Thanks a lot, Clay, for your prompt responses. I'll study your suggestio...
- clayasaurus (4/15) Apr 17 2006 Your welcome. Sorry for the typo's as I was kind of in a rush when I
- Mike Parker (4/10) Apr 17 2006 I'm almost certain someone started on a wrapper for Fox some time ago.
- Justin C Calvarese (11/24) Apr 17 2006 It could be that someone has done something with the Fox toolkit, but I
- Rémy Mouëza (19/19) Apr 21 2006 I like Fox toolkit. Fast and efficient, not too big. But I didn't do any...
- Robert Jones (9/35) May 26 2006 I started an attempt to port Fox-Toolkit to D about 2 years ago, but
Hi all, There's a GUI framework, portable and with active development called Fox ( www.fox-toolkit.org ). Fox is written in C++ and has a makefile for dmc, so I suppose that's working. My question is: has someone tried to use fox from D? Would be possible for D call a library written in C++? If it is possible, what sould I do to port that library in a D's usable manner? Hints? TIA Nilo
Apr 17 2006
Nilo wrote:My question is: has someone tried to use fox from D? Would be possible for D call a library written in C++?Yes. If it is possible, what sould I do to port thatlibrary in a D's usable manner?Create a C wrapper for it, then call the C wrapper from D.
Apr 17 2006
In article <e20mc9$bc5$1 digitaldaemon.com>, clayasaurus says...Nilo wrote:What are the steps involved in creating a wrapper from C++? Is there a simple tutorial or how-to? Or samples? I've done a search but could not find... I would like to start these port. Maybe I can do it... ;-) TIA NiloMy question is: has someone tried to use fox from D? Would be possible for D call a library written in C++?Yes. If it is possible, what sould I do to port thatlibrary in a D's usable manner?Create a C wrapper for it, then call the C wrapper from D.
Apr 17 2006
Nilo wrote:In article <e20mc9$bc5$1 digitaldaemon.com>, clayasaurus says...because you wrap the classes into C functions. First you have to locate the important classes in the library, and then you must create wrappers for them. It may go something like... ------------------------------------------------ #include "foxtk.h" Window *window; void window_Start(char[] title, int x, int y) { window = new Window("Title", x,y); } void window_Close() { window.close(); delete window; } ------------------------------------------------ Compile this with DMC as well, we'll name it foxtkglue.lib. module window; // pretty it up void start() { window_Start() } void close() { window_Close() } // C-functions extern(C) { void window_Start(...); void window_Close(...); } Compile your D code with your two .lib's, and do something like... import window; main() { window.start(..,..,..); window.close(..,..,..); } ---------------------------- Here's a C interface example I created with RakNet. http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/browser/trunk/raknet/rakglue Goodluck. ~ ClayNilo wrote:What are the steps involved in creating a wrapper from C++? Is there a simple tutorial or how-to? Or samples? I've done a search but could not find... I would like to start these port. Maybe I can do it... ;-) TIA NiloMy question is: has someone tried to use fox from D? Would be possible for D call a library written in C++?Yes. If it is possible, what sould I do to port thatlibrary in a D's usable manner?Create a C wrapper for it, then call the C wrapper from D.
Apr 17 2006
In article <e20qrb$h1c$1 digitaldaemon.com>, clayasaurus says...Nilo wrote:Thanks a lot, Clay, for your prompt responses. I'll study your suggestions and code later. Maybe I can do something about Fox... Thanks. I'll keep you ( and the list ) informed about any progress. Obviously I'll share any code that cames from these... ;-) NiloIn article <e20mc9$bc5$1 digitaldaemon.com>, clayasaurus says...because you wrap the classes into C functions. First you have to locate the important classes in the library, and then you must create wrappers for them. It may go something like... ------------------------------------------------ #include "foxtk.h" Window *window; void window_Start(char[] title, int x, int y) { window = new Window("Title", x,y); } void window_Close() { window.close(); delete window; } ------------------------------------------------ Compile this with DMC as well, we'll name it foxtkglue.lib. module window; // pretty it up void start() { window_Start() } void close() { window_Close() } // C-functions extern(C) { void window_Start(...); void window_Close(...); } Compile your D code with your two .lib's, and do something like... import window; main() { window.start(..,..,..); window.close(..,..,..); } ---------------------------- Here's a C interface example I created with RakNet. http://www.dsource.org/projects/bindings/browser/trunk/raknet/rakglue Goodluck. ~ ClayNilo wrote:What are the steps involved in creating a wrapper from C++? Is there a simple tutorial or how-to? Or samples? I've done a search but could not find... I would like to start these port. Maybe I can do it... ;-) TIA NiloMy question is: has someone tried to use fox from D? Would be possible for D call a library written in C++?Yes. If it is possible, what sould I do to port thatlibrary in a D's usable manner?Create a C wrapper for it, then call the C wrapper from D.
Apr 17 2006
clayasaurus <clayasaurus gmail.com> Nilo wrote:Thanks a lot, Clay, for your prompt responses. I'll study your suggestions and code later. Maybe I can do something about Fox... Thanks. I'll keep you ( and the list ) informed about any progress. Obviously I'll share any code that cames from these... ;-) NiloYour welcome. Sorry for the typo's as I was kind of in a rush when I wrote that. If you need any sort of clarification, let me know. ~ Clay
Apr 17 2006
Nilo wrote:Hi all, There's a GUI framework, portable and with active development called Fox ( www.fox-toolkit.org ).If it is possible, what sould I do to port that library in a D's usable manner?I'm almost certain someone started on a wrapper for Fox some time ago. You might want to nose around Wiki4D or ask Google and see if anything turns up. It might save you some effort.
Apr 17 2006
Mike Parker wrote:Nilo wrote:It could be that someone has done something with the Fox toolkit, but I don't remember anything. (I'm pretty sure people have mentioned Fox before, but that's not the same as starting a project.) If such a project has been started, this page is one place that I'd expect it to be mentioned: http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?AvailableGuiLibraries But obviously I could have missed the post or whatever where someone mentioned a Fox projects, so Googling isn't a bad idea. -- jcc7Hi all, There's a GUI framework, portable and with active development called Fox ( www.fox-toolkit.org ).If it is possible, what sould I do to port that library in a D's usable manner?I'm almost certain someone started on a wrapper for Fox some time ago. You might want to nose around Wiki4D or ask Google and see if anything turns up. It might save you some effort.
Apr 17 2006
I like Fox toolkit. Fast and efficient, not too big. But I didn't do anything valuable in it. Making a wrapper by hand for such a huge library will take a lot of time. I don't want to be discourageing: you simply should use a wrapper generator. I made one once, it is still available on remy.moueza.free.fr and needs python and gccxml. Currently I no longer manage to compile gccxml. The python code was written either at 6.00am when I was trying to wake up or after a long day at 10pm when I was starting to sleep... Looking back at it, it's really badly done. Too much spagetthi code. I shouldn't have based my entire design on a visitor pattern. However I managed to port a subset of the FLTK library to D with it. It wasn't working well, because of a bad memory management but it was very encourageing. For the moment, you should have a glance to the perl script used to generate the wx.net wx_c lib. I think it's the most promising tool for the moment. I am currently making a new (quite) small and simple wrapper generator, written entirely in D and only using phobos regexp lib, but it won't be valuable any soon. If you feel adventurous (and smart enough), you may wish to try to make an even smaller and simpler generator using Peri Hankey's language machine on languagemachine.sourceforge.net. Best wishes and good luck !
Apr 21 2006
Justin C Calvarese said the following on 4/18/2006 1:52 AM:Mike Parker wrote:I started an attempt to port Fox-Toolkit to D about 2 years ago, but shelved it after the frustration with the shear amount of preprocessor instructions, in the source files, that I could not make sense of. I still plan to return to it eventually. If someone does get a C wrapper working I'll use that instead and abandon the port. -- Robert Jones robertjones21 hotpop.comNilo wrote:It could be that someone has done something with the Fox toolkit, but I don't remember anything. (I'm pretty sure people have mentioned Fox before, but that's not the same as starting a project.) If such a project has been started, this page is one place that I'd expect it to be mentioned: http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?AvailableGuiLibraries But obviously I could have missed the post or whatever where someone mentioned a Fox projects, so Googling isn't a bad idea.Hi all, There's a GUI framework, portable and with active development called Fox ( www.fox-toolkit.org ).If it is possible, what sould I do to port that library in a D's usable manner?I'm almost certain someone started on a wrapper for Fox some time ago. You might want to nose around Wiki4D or ask Google and see if anything turns up. It might save you some effort.
May 26 2006