On 12/10/10 12:12 AM, BLS wrote:
Vote++ A discussion Forum would be nice too.
I am just trying to figure out what to do with :
operator HWND() const;
Any suggestions on that?
The previous attempt for D support in SWIG (which became unmaintained at
a rather early stage and didn't make its way into the SWIG core
distribution) had a project at DSource [1], but although I really
appreciate all the effort that went into it and the great service it has
been providing for a really long time now, I am not sure if DSource is
the way to go for this kind of effort.
For example, DSource seems to be surrounded by a cloud of bad karma
lately – lots of dead or obsolete projects, very busy admin(s), server
outages, etc.
Also, a possible DSource project wouldn't really have a common source
code base, at least I wouldn't want to maintain a collection of SWIG
interface files for specific libraries I probably don't even use myself.
Another thing is that since D support is an official part of SWIG now,
there are also the official communication channels (SF.net tracker, the
swig-user ML, etc.).
These questions make me wonder if it would be a better idea to use
separate repositories for each library binding, probably at some DVCS
site where projects are easily forkable (like GitHub, Bitbucket and the
likes), and keep a central page/thread somewhere with links to the
individual projects.
Discussing SWIG and D is an entirely different topic, for which there
are many possible options: a newly created digitalmars.D.bindings NG, a
forum hosted somewhere (DSource, …), Stackoverflow (tagged »swig« and
»d« or maybe even »swig-d«), the Swig-user mailing list, and probably a
few more I didn't think of right now.
Regarding your specific problem: Generally speaking, operator
overloading is WIP (hopefully I find time to implement it for D2 during
the weekend), but implicit conversions can't really be mapped to D
anyway, so just use the %rename directive of SWIG to map the implicit
conversion operator to a regular member function like »asHwnd()«.
[1] http://dsource.org/projects/swig4d
