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

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:13:05 +0100, Georg Bauhaus wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 15:36 +0100, 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...
> 
> Not if there will be an EAStirngs revival for Win32.
> Your example should then read something like
>  SetWindowText (Window, +"Hello!");

SetWindowTextW is a function that returns BOOL, instead of raising
exception. Secondly MultiByteToWideChar is again a function that returns
naturally not what you call it for. That has to be allocated first, of
unknown in advance length, of course, and then passed to
MultiByteToWideChar among other 6(!) parameters. So ugly prefix "+" does
not much help. And if we designed Win32Ada bindings from scratch it would
not be needed anyway.

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