[Gambas-devel] Gambas component queries

[Rob]

On Tuesday 18 January 2005 05:27, Srikanta Prasanna wrote:
> Thanks!  I went thru the pcre one. And after most of the
> doubts being chased away from my mind, new ones are popping
> up, which i'll again mail about :-) And I found Posix
> component to be more simpler to understand :) One thing I
> observed was that you had used CREGEXP object in pcre, and no
> such object declaration in posix. The declaration of this
> object (which starts with a GB_BASE ob) is solely based on the
> components internal needs, isn't it?

Well, Posix is a static class, so it never is actually 
instantiated as an object.  Regexp (in pcre) is a 'real' class, 
and so needs an object instantiated in order to use it.  That is 
closer to what you'll need to do with ImageMagick, since there 
is data (the image data) that needs to live in the object 
between method calls so you don't have to pass in all the image 
data every time.  (You could do that, but I think it goes 
against every image class that's ever been written, including 
the existing gb.qt ones.)

> So, all the events (mouse clicks, etc) are received by Gambas
> itself and our appropriate methods (which we register with
> Gambas) are invoked by Gambas at runtime whenever it receives
> any event. Am I correct?

Yeah, that sounds accurate.

Good luck, and don't be afraid to ask questions as needed :)  I'm 
a component newbie too but if you stump me, I will be forced to 
learn something new myself.

Rob