Re: I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-11 Thread Lionel Ulmer
> (2) A few things like DirectX and COM are so very closely tied with C++ > objects that implementing them in C seems an overkill to me. But after > knowing they are done, I have nothing against that Well, speaking for DirectX 1-7 , I do not see exactly what C++ would have gained us (

Re: I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-11 Thread Subhobroto Sinha
Actually Shachar, I was thinking along these lines: (1) Programs in WINE are making direct calls to internal functions (which are not really Win32, but made by us using which we can use te Win32 functions as wrappers...) and that's just possible because C functions are globally callable (the o

Re: I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-11 Thread Rein Klazes
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:20:46 +0200, you wrote: > typelib.c is assigned to Rein KLazes (by copy-right). Did you experiment > with also writing the TLB? do you have any > code/documentation/URLs/pointers laying around that I should see before > I start? (That is if you are not doing it?) I take

Re: I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-11 Thread Boaz Harrosh
I looked at the code (typelib.c/.h) it looks strait forward, read the file. (Microsoft invented yet another file format, this is when they where writing the book about OLE files. nu well ...) I guess it should not be very hard to implement the ICreateTypeLib/2 (I hope). Than WIDL can use that In

Re: I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-10 Thread Mike Hearn
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 21:07, Steven Edwards wrote: > Someone submitted source/binarys for a repleacement stdole32.tlb a year > or so ago but I think it required MS_VC to build. Yes, we have the IDL (mostly) but Alexandre won't accept binaries into CVS, we need to be able to translate the IDL into

Re: I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-10 Thread Steven Edwards
--- Mike Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 19:25, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > > What is the situation on Wine. can widl or any other tool produce a > > > proper .TLB structure? > > No, not as far as I know :( We really need this, for many years now > Wine > has been shipping OLE

Re: I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-10 Thread Mike Hearn
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 19:25, Boaz Harrosh wrote: > What is the situation on Wine. can widl or any other tool produce a > proper .TLB structure? No, not as far as I know :( We really need this, for many years now Wine has been shipping OLE that is nearly non-functional for some important tasks bec

Re: I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-10 Thread Boaz Harrosh
Was it someone (from ROS) that said they had an "Internet explorer" replacement written in C++ ? Was that a shell-folder explorer or an iexplorer type of application. Can it be made to support "Internet Explorer" controls. (the "Shell.Explorer"/IWebBrowser2 one, that can be placed in user applic

Re: I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-10 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Ove Kaaven wrote: Consider that the reason could be that C++ has too many interoperability problems to solve any within an interoperability project like Wine. Just try to compile something like MFC with g++ and see how well the result would run MSVC++-compiled programs. I don't think anyone was

Re: Re: I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-10 Thread Subhobroto Sinha
To be honest, if you follow my previous posts, I DID write some C++. Albeit, that was not reallt necessary ... ;) Anyways, I will submit a pure C and a C++ version of future patches, sch that both work under the current WINE. After that, it will be upto Sir Julliard... Season's Greetings Subh

Re: I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-10 Thread Ove Kaaven
ons, 10.12.2003 kl. 08.24 skrev Shachar Shemesh: > Alexandre Julliard wrote: > > >"Subhobroto Sinha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>However, soon many of his elves found out that technologies like > >>MFC, WTL, ATL, COM, DCOM, COM+ and other MS bloops were getting too > >>complex to be imple

Re: I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-10 Thread Mike Hearn
On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 08:06, Marcus Meissner wrote: > Read what Alexandre wrote. To paraphrase: > > "Feel free to write it in C++ and submit it when you are done." ie I guess there is no rule, it's just a matter of using it when appropriate (and of course Alexandre must agree that it is appropria

Re: I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-10 Thread Marcus Meissner
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:24:26AM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Alexandre Julliard wrote: > > >"Subhobroto Sinha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > >>However, soon many of his elves found out that technologies like > >>MFC, WTL, ATL, COM, DCOM, COM+ and other MS bloops were getting to

Re: I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-10 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Alexandre Julliard wrote: "Subhobroto Sinha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: However, soon many of his elves found out that technologies like MFC, WTL, ATL, COM, DCOM, COM+ and other MS bloops were getting too complex to be implemented using plain C, and thus developments in those areas were soon

Re: I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-09 Thread Alexandre Julliard
"Subhobroto Sinha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, soon many of his elves found out that technologies like > MFC, WTL, ATL, COM, DCOM, COM+ and other MS bloops were getting too > complex to be implemented using plain C, and thus developments in > those areas were soon in limbo. > > But th

Re: I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Being Jewish, and growing up in a Jewish majority environment, I don't connect much to the spirit of christmas. Sorry. However, I do have the vague recollection that Santa brings presents to boys who have been good. I don't see how sending the same message over and over and over again can be co

I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-09 Thread Subhobroto Sinha
With XMas nearing, I thought it was time I made my yearly wish to Santa - that he would let his elves use C++ in WINE. (Just in case, you did not know Santa's email address, it's 'julliard[at]winehq.org', and you can make your wishes at 'wine-devel[at]winehq.com'..) You see, Santa was always so

I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-09 Thread Subhobroto Sinha
With XMas nearing, I thought it was time I made my yearly wish to Santa - that he would let his elves use C++ in WINE. (Just in case, you did not know Santa's email address, it's 'julliard[at]winehq.org', and you can make your wishes at 'wine-devel[at]winehq.com'..) You see, Santa was always so

I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-09 Thread Subhobroto Sinha
With XMas nearing, I thought it was time I made my yearly wish to Santa - that he would let his elves use C++ in WINE. (Just in case, you did not know Santa's email address, it's 'julliard[at]winehq.org', and you can make your wishes at 'wine-devel[at]winehq.com'..) You see, Santa was always so

I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-09 Thread Subhobroto Sinha
With XMas nearing, I thought it was time I made my yearly wish to Santa - that he would let his elves use C++ in WINE. (Just in case, you did not know Santa's email address, it's 'julliard[at]winehq.org', and you can make your wishes at 'wine-devel[at]winehq.com'..) You see, Santa was always so

I made a wish, wrote a letter to Santa...

2003-12-09 Thread Subhobroto Sinha
With XMas nearing, I thought it was time I made my yearly wish to Santa - that he would let his elves use C++ in WINE. (Just in case, you did not know Santa's email address, it's 'julliard[at]winehq.org', and you can make your wishes at 'wine-devel[at]winehq.com'..) You see, Santa was always so