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From: "Lucretia" <lucretia9@lycos.co.uk>
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Martin Krischik wrote:
> sg wrote:
>
> > Well... if this is the only way, so I think that there a very little
> > chance for having the wxWindows Ada binding
>
> Or any other binding. I don't think an Ada binding to wxWindows  is more
> work then a Fortran 2003 binding would be (once Fortan 2003 becomes
> available).

Have no clue about this ;-D

> And it's the same for any large C++ library. There are several large
> projects for KDE which want to make KDE available to other languages. Most
> of those use then C/Proxy class approach as well.

It's the easiest, most portable method.

> The problem is that the C++ compilation model does not lend itself to
> automated generation of binding files. All the #if, #defined and #include
> are in the way. At least the usual implementation of #include - the ISO
> standard  allows implementations not using a plain text file.

Yup, in wxAda, I've decided to add dummy primitives where functions
differ for different platforms. For example, there is a function in
wxFrame (can't remember which one off the top of my head) which is only
available under Win32, so in wxAda I just have a null sub program for
other platforms, calling it isn't really going to matter and will only
effect Win32.

Luke.