I first started with a Windows message box program and installing an
IDE. I'm now using the VisualD plug-in with the Visual Studio 10 Shell,
after battling a bit with installation of service pack 1 for Visual
Studio. VisualD works, sort of, except the devs forgot that the resource
compiler needs an INCLUDE variable so that it finds <windows.h>, so,
silly as it is, the VisualD plugin can't be used directly as-is to
create a modern look and feel Windows program. I solved it by running
Visual Studio from the command line.
Anyway, I haven't yet started delving into the language documentation or
any tutorials, just used gut-feeling, so I'd appreciate discussion of
how to make this my first D console program less non-idiomatic <g>:
<code>
import std.stdio;
import std.ascii;
import std.string; // chop
//import core.sys.windows.unicode_based_api; <-- DOES NOT WORK.
char lastCh( string s )
{
return (s.length == 0? '\0' : s[s.length - 1]);
}
void main()
{
char[] buf;
writeln( "module core.sys.windows.unicode_api;" );
writeln( "import core.sys.windows.windows;" );
while( stdin.readln( buf ) )
{
string identifier;
bool inIdentifier = false;
foreach( char c; buf )
{
if( isAlpha( c ) )
{
if( !inIdentifier ) { identifier = ""; }
identifier ~= c;
inIdentifier = true;
}
else if( c == '_' || isDigit( c ) )
{
if( inIdentifier )
{
identifier ~= c;
}
}
else
{
inIdentifier = false;
if( isWhite( c ) )
{
// Ignore.
}
else
{
if( c == '(' && lastCh( identifier ) == 'W' )
{
immutable string name = chop( identifier );
// removes last char
writeln( "alias ", identifier, " ", name, ";" );
}
identifier = "";
}
}
}
}
}
</code>
The problem is, I can't manage to build the generated module.
The compiler is protesting something about the module being in a source
code file that it can't read.
E.g. with "import unicode_based_api;" it exclaims,
<eror>
Error 1 Error: module unicode_based_api is in file 'unicode_based_api.d'
which cannot be read d:\winfolders\alf\my documents\visual studio
2010\Projects\GenWinFuncAliases\GenWinFuncAliases\main.d 5
</eror>
?
Cheers,
- Alf
