[Gambas-devel] component API and miscellany

[Christopher Brian Jack]

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Laurent Carlier wrote:

> I guess perhaps i should add yuv overlay support to sdl componant .... I know
> sdl support overlay surfaces but i don't know really how it work :-/
>
> But i can be a pretty good idea to support these.

On my system in particular there does not seem to be a symmetry between
SDL supporting overlays and the X environment support of XVidix/XVideo.
I'm going by my experience with MPlayer but what gets me is that the
XVideo/XVidix documentation is difficult to find.  I'm wondering where the
MPlayer folks found it?

My preference is for an independant XVidix/XVideo component since it will
interoperate with either of the selected Form interfaces (Qt vs. Gtk) and
that SDL does not provide the ability to use forms if used for anything
more than sound support.

On this note I still would like to see a "Hello, World!" component stub
with instructions to get the Gambas build to compile it and make the
exported class available.  This simplest component I can think of would
make a HelloWorld class with a single method hello() (AS String) that
would return the text "Hello, World!"  I think this would be a useful stub
for potential component builders to see what is involved.

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