[Gambas-devel] Designing good APIs

[Benoit Minisini]

On Friday 15 July 2005 01:17, Laurent Carlier wrote:
> Benoit Minisini a écrit :
> > I suggest you (especially the Gambas component developers) read this
> > article from Mathias Ettrich about the designing of APIs:
> >
> > http://doc.trolltech.com/qq/qq13-apis.html
> >
> > I agreed about all I read, even if I didn't follow all its
> > recommendations in Gambas :-)
>
> Thanks !
> Really usefull and interesting !

Here is something that may interest you and others:

I made a new API in gambas named GB.RealFileName(). It does the same thing as 
GB.FileName() except that if the file is located inside the project 
executable, then a temporary copy is made, and the path to this copy is 
returned.

This way, the SDL component can load fonts and play musics that are located in 
the project transparently. And I could make a functional executable of 
Galaxia :-)

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini
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