[M3devel] Shorthand type declarations?

[Chris]

On Wed, 3 Feb 2010 11:51:32 +0000
Jay K <jay.krell at cornell.edu> wrote:

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> Chris many of the X headers these days are generated from XML using Python.
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>   Seriously -- you need Python to build X these days.
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> You should look into adding a little to that system for Modula-3.
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> Cloning headers is tedious, therefore error-prone, therefore a recipe for bugs.
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> Please try to avoid it.
> If you really can't go the XML route, there is also a fork of gcc
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> that is supposed to be adequate for header parsing, and spits out XML.
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> Look for "gccxml" or such. Maybe it is old/dead now?

I've never really done much in the way of autogenerating Interfaces and such. Perhaps now is the time for me to look into it. 

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> There is also swig, which is a partial C compiler.
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>    Not a great idea to attempt.
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>    But it is there, you might try it.
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> I'd be far more interested in wrapping Qt than X though...

Oh, dont worry, QT will get a binding, as will GTK. If not by me, then someone else will do it. The reason I'm doing this interface to XCB is because that is the way X is moving. Future applications will depend less and less on XLib and more on XCB.
Also, I dont use QT, or GTK. 
There are a bunch of bindings that SHOULD be written. OpenMotif, SDL, wxWindows, etc...
I'm starting out with XCB, Cairo/Pango, XKB for X. The OpenGL binding will be updated next, along with it's GLX and GLUT bindings. These are the basic X Libs that lots of other X apps depend on. 
Then I'll start doing QT/GTK(if someone hasnt already beaten me to it.

Nice thing with QT and GTK is that they are in fact cross platform. Therefor I wouldn't classify them as "X Windows" bindings. Just as GUI toolkits. Nice ones at that.

Whoa! I've got ALOT of work to do. Be back soon.



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Chris <Highjinks at gmx.com>