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digitalmars.D.announce - Visual D 0.3.29 features C++ to D conversion wizard

reply Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
Hi,

with the recent initiatives to create bindings to C libraries and port 
C/C++ code to D, I thought the integration into Visual D of some tools 
written some time ago could be helpful. It proved to be a bit more work 
than expected to get them in shape, but finally the C++ to D converter 
seems usable. Read more about it here: 
http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/Tour/CppConversion
There is also a command line version available for those not working 
with Visual Studio.

There are more changes in this release:

   * highlighting: new colors for user defined list of types (defaults 
to basic types in object.d, see 
http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/Tour/Editor)
   * disabled versions: fixed wrong highlighting when editing before 
conditional
   * fixed freeze in startup due to thread starting issues (probably 
only happened with more than 2 cores)
   * added C++ to D conversion wizard
   * added installation for Visual Studio 11
   * tweaked dialogs to better integrate with VS

Visual D is a Visual Studio package providing both project management 
and language services for the D programming language. It works with 
Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010 as well as the free Visual Studio Shells.

The Visual D installer can be downloaded from its website at 
http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald

Happy coding,
Rainer
Dec 03 2011
next sibling parent reply Adrian <adrian.remove-nospam veith-system.de> writes:
Am 03.12.2011 11:13, schrieb Rainer Schuetze:

 Hi,
 
 with the recent initiatives to create bindings to C libraries and port
 C/C++ code to D, I thought the integration into Visual D of some tools
 written some time ago could be helpful. It proved to be a bit more work
 than expected to get them in shape, but finally the C++ to D converter
 seems usable. Read more about it here:
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/Tour/CppConversion


Hi,


I am really curious about the C++ to D converter, but I can't find a
menu entry for it in the Visual D submenu. Do I have to enable
something, somewhere ?

best,

Adrian.
Dec 03 2011
parent reply Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 03.12.2011 12:04, Adrian wrote:

 Am 03.12.2011 11:13, schrieb Rainer Schuetze:

 Hi,

 with the recent initiatives to create bindings to C libraries and port
 C/C++ code to D, I thought the integration into Visual D of some tools
 written some time ago could be helpful. It proved to be a bit more work
 than expected to get them in shape, but finally the C++ to D converter
 seems usable. Read more about it here:
 http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/Tour/CppConversion


 Hi,


 I am really curious about the C++ to D converter, but I can't find a
 menu entry for it in the Visual D submenu. Do I have to enable
 something, somewhere ?

 best,

 Adrian.


Hmmm, should appear as "C++ conversion wizard" in the Visual D menu.

It might be an update issue of the menu, it is cached by Visual Studio. 
What version of Visual Studio are you using?

You should also find a command "VisualD.ConversionWizard" in the 
keyboard assignment dialog.
Dec 03 2011
parent reply Mirko Pilger <mirko.pilger gmail.com> writes:
i neither see the menu entry nor the command assignment, too. i'm using 
the vs shell 2008.
Dec 03 2011
next sibling parent Michal Minich <michal.minich gmail.com> writes:
On 3. 12. 2011 16:02, Mirko Pilger wrote:

 i neither see the menu entry nor the command assignment, too. i'm using
 the vs shell 2008.


I don't see it either after upgrading from previous version in vs shell 
2010
Dec 03 2011
prev sibling parent reply Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
I can confirm the problem on another computer. I'll look into it...

On 03.12.2011 16:02, Mirko Pilger wrote:

 i neither see the menu entry nor the command assignment, too. i'm using
 the vs shell 2008.
Dec 03 2011
parent reply Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
Should be fixed now, I've replaced the installer.

I also noticed that the fonts in the dialogs look ugly on XP (I have 
tweaked it on Win7), I still have to figure out what fonts VS is using.

On 03.12.2011 16:27, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 I can confirm the problem on another computer. I'll look into it...

 On 03.12.2011 16:02, Mirko Pilger wrote:

 i neither see the menu entry nor the command assignment, too. i'm using
 the vs shell 2008.
Dec 03 2011
next sibling parent Mirko Pilger <mirko.pilger gmail.com> writes:
 Should be fixed now, I've replaced the installer.


i can confirm this for vs shell 2008 on win xp sp3. i'll give it a shot 
and feed it some c++ code later this evening.

thanks for your work.
Dec 03 2011
prev sibling parent Adrian <adrian.remove-nospam veith-system.de> writes:
Am 03.12.2011 16:38, schrieb Rainer Schuetze:

 Should be fixed now, I've replaced the installer.
 
 I also noticed that the fonts in the dialogs look ugly on XP (I have
 tweaked it on Win7), I still have to figure out what fonts VS is using.
 
 On 03.12.2011 16:27, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

 I can confirm the problem on another computer. I'll look into it...

 On 03.12.2011 16:02, Mirko Pilger wrote:

 i neither see the menu entry nor the command assignment, too. i'm using
 the vs shell 2008.






Thanks, it works now - a very nice tool !

Cheers,

Adrian.
Dec 04 2011
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Vladimir Panteleev" <vladimir thecybershadow.net> writes:
On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:13:03 +0200, Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de>  
wrote:


 C++ to D converter


Step 1: Use C++ to D converter on DMD source code
Step 2: Integrate ported DMD source code into Visual D for perfect  
semantic features
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!

But seriously, great work!

-- 
Best regards,
  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir thecybershadow.net
Dec 03 2011
parent Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 03.12.2011 16:53, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:

 On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:13:03 +0200, Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de>
 wrote:


 C++ to D converter


 Step 1: Use C++ to D converter on DMD source code
 Step 2: Integrate ported DMD source code into Visual D for perfect
 semantic features


That was also my idea 2 years ago when I wrote most of the converter, 
but I am no longer sure the dmd code would work so well in an IDE.


 Step 3: ???
 Step 4: Profit!

 But seriously, great work!


Thanks.
Dec 03 2011
prev sibling parent reply bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:
Rainer Schuetze:


 http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/Tour/CppConversion
 There is also a command line version available for those not working 
 with Visual Studio.


It seems a nice tool.

If I try it on this C++ code:


enum Foos { A, B };
char *Colors[] = {"red", "blue", "green"};
int main() {
    return 0;
}



It outputs:


module test;

enum Foos { A, B };
char *Colors[] = {"red", "blue", "green"};
int main() {
    return 0;
}


Bye,
bearophile
Dec 03 2011
parent Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario gmx.de> writes:
On 04.12.2011 06:30, bearophile wrote:

 Rainer Schuetze:


 http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/Tour/CppConversion
 There is also a command line version available for those not working
 with Visual Studio.


 It seems a nice tool.

 If I try it on this C++ code:


 enum Foos { A, B };
 char *Colors[] = {"red", "blue", "green"};
 int main() {
      return 0;
 }



 It outputs:


 module test;

 enum Foos { A, B };
 char *Colors[] = {"red", "blue", "green"};
 int main() {
      return 0;
 }


I would have expected it to convert the braces into brackets. It does 
not seem to work with pointer types, while if you specify "string" as a 
value type,

string Colors[] = {"red", "blue", "green"};

converts to

string Colors[] = ["red", "blue", "green"];

It would be nice if it could count the elements in the array.
Dec 03 2011