Ouch. Wait, if it IS an embedded browser, and if it was made (which is
likely) in Visual Studio, it's an embedded IE.... Which is very bad...
2009/10/16 Joe Developer <joe.d.develo...@gmail.com>
> From browsing the code it seems like a straight translation is unlikely to
> work all that well.. It seems like the vb code uses an embedded webbrowser
> to handle the handshaking with the wave site.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Sam Osborne
> <sam.tosbo...@googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>> Ok... Well you could use wxWidgets to do the GUI for C++, instead of
>> something like GTK.. It may mean learning a new thing on top of C++, but
>> then you won't need some GUI maker thingy for every OS.. Linux just needs to
>> install wxWidgets, not sure about Mac, but Windows works fine.
>>
>> Ok.. I'll have a look at the code.. Same link as before?
>>
>> All my code was (and some still is) pretty scruffy.. It can't be that bad!
>>
>> Seeing as I'm TRYING (I may fail :( ) to translate the code almost
>> directly, it may be pretty simple to find out which code means what,
>> espcecially if (once I've translated it all) if I match the line numbers up.
>>
>> For example:
>> VB.net code:
>> Line 1: msgbox("Hello")
>> C++ code:
>> Line 1: cout << "Hello";
>> Alternate C++ Code (there's another bit of code that does exactly the same
>> thing
>> Line 1: printf("Hello");
>>
>> Although you may not be able to compile it, you can sure Test For Bugs,
>> rather than Bug Fix, and then just tell us some bugs.. If you're working
>> your way through the simple stuff in that pdf, you may even be able to fix
>> some of them..
>>
>> 2009/10/15 Oliver Baker <ocba...@gmail.com>
>>
>> The Source of Version 2 has been uploaded to Google Code, remember that I
>>> rushed this a little and the code is very scruffy (readable) since I really
>>> wasn't expecting to get this much support for the project.
>>> If this is going to be coded now in C++ this has been put on hold.
>>>
>>> (There is a slightly more cleaner version of the code with less bugs but
>>> I wanted to put up the code used in the latest version thats been released.)
>>>
>>> Don't complain about this programs source, If I was to release this in
>>> vb.net with the API when it comes out this would be re - written to
>>> proper standards.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Oliver Baker
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Joe Developer <
>>> joe.d.develo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:20 AM, Oliver Baker <ocba...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thats all very good, however I have to make sure I find people that I
>>>>> know will not suddenly ditch the application halfway through, leaving me
>>>>> dead in the water. (I am not saying that you would do it, its happened to
>>>>> me
>>>>> before)
>>>>
>>>> Experience can never be taken from you.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I suppose we can move into C++, but we are going to have to find
>>>>> somebody who can program the GUI's for C++ Applications.
>>>>>
>>>> I don't know why anyone would code the gui in C++ I think you would find
>>>> the gui more portable and easier to manage using something like gtk+ and
>>>> whatever makes sense for the 'backend' be it c++ or python or *
>>>> http://www.gtk.org/screenshots.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> I will put up all the current plans for this application on
>>>>> the Specified Wave and we can start figuring out who's gonna do what.
>>>>>
>>>>> It strikes me as very likely that the linux/mac version will be a small
>>>> shell script that gets called from something like conky now and then.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> It will be interesting to see how this all progresses.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Oliver Baker
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> >
>
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Google Wave API" group.
To post to this group, send email to google-wave-api@googlegroups.com
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to
google-wave-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com
For more options, visit this group at
http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
