[Gambas-devel] gb.api

[Daniel Campos]

>corrected :)
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>i don't know where is the problem ! in upload
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>You have done a great job :)
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>i've say something about this concept there is some month... but i haven't the 
>capability to do that myself. !
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>Now i can just play with opengl without any component to test in a first time.
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>I'm really impressive about you because all that you do work fine or quite.
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Thanks! do you want to be my public relations manager? :-)))


>Do you think it will be possible to do an api explorer ? To simplify the 
>function detection.
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Well, I think it is possible to write a program to parse a header (.h) 
file, and
translate declarations from C to the gb.api style, however it is not so easy
as it seems to be, as some libraries uses a lot of type declarations, 
for example
glib uses some types as "gchar, gpointer...", and some .h files include 
other
.h files that needs to be parsed too... May be a documentation project 
would be
better, to start translating functions and structures declarations
for the more common libraries (libc, ncurses, glib ...) and place it in 
a wiki so anyone
can look for the definitions.

Note, however, that the programmer should declare only the functions and 
structures
from a library that he really needs, as each declaratiom uses some 
memory. That is,
writting a big file that declares all functions provided by a library 
would waste a lot
of memory. This is a bad practice that I've seen in a lot of VB programs 
that I had
to "repair" in my former jobs.

Regards,

D. Campos
 

>Regards,
>Fabien Bodard
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