[Gambas-user] Using projects as libraries

[Benoit Minisini]

Le Samedi 28 Juin 2003 18:47, Rob a écrit :
> On Saturday 28 June 2003 05:53, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> > I have added a new keyword, USE, to tell the interpreter to take classes
> > into another Gambas archive.
>
> Gambas archive meaning a compiled Gambas executable, some new compiled
> Gambas library object, or just a directory full of Gambas source files? 
> I'd be okay with that in any of those cases, btw.

It is a "compiled Gambas executable". I name it "archive", because it IS an 
archive, like a *.tar file.

>
> > 3) In the component directory (/opt/gambas/lib by default). This way, we
> > can add global classes (such as an InputBox :-)) to every gambas project.
>
> This part sounds especially good, because then "libraries" written in
> Gambas would have nearly the same ease of use as those written in C/C++.
>
> But I'm assuming that if you made a form in such a project that you wished
> to use as a control in other projects, it still wouldn't appear in the
> Gambas IDE's toolbox - you'd have to instantiate it and place the control
> programmatically at runtime.  Is that accurate?

Yes. Gambas form cannot be a real control. At the moment :-)

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Benoit Minisini
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