Re: [ranting] Take Command Plugin, Win32Ada and Ada.Directories

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:31:08 +0100, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
>> The library API should be easy to call in programs, given
>> Interfaces.C.*?
> 
> Except that SetWindowText (Window, "Hello!"); would become about 20-30
> lines long, it is easy to call...

No, not relay. With my little plug-in project it's not that bad. In fact -
out of the top of my head and current experience with Win32Ada it would be:

SetWindowTextW (Window, "Hello!" & Win32.Wide_Nul);

Have a look at the sources from the project to see how it works:

http://code.google.com/p/mkutils/

Or have a look at the Wiki;

http://www.jpsoftwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Plugin/Wildcard_Search

I think a similar robust C implementation would only be 20% shorter - if you
have a C compiler with alloca support - otherwise memory management will
eat up any advantage C might have hat.

Martin

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