[Gambas-devel] component API and miscellany

[Christopher Brian Jack]

On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Rob Kudla wrote:

> If you look in the Gambas source tree under comp/src, you'll find
> three components written in Gambas, including the .component and
> other special files necessary for building each of them.  I
> guess you could make a component that did nothing but provide a
> class with a "Hello, world" function, but I think these three
> are pretty good examples, if not all that well documented yet.
>
> I'd write the documentation myself, but my only Gambas component
> programming has been in C.

Some of the component ideas I had would need to be done in C/C++ due to
performance requirements (such as alpha merges and other tedium) or
interfacing to libMPEG XVidix or similar connections for streaming video
into a color keyed DrawingArea.

Brian