yes this is one of my dream but .... I'm not good enough to make it come true.
Stef On Sep 18, 2009, at 6:40 PM, Lawson English wrote: > Johan Brichau wrote: >> On 16 Sep 2009, at 20:37, Ken Treis wrote: >> >> >>> * I'm creating a partial Alien library for GemStone so that I can >>> use the CairoGraphics package in both Pharo and GLASS. But on >>> x86-64, there there's a size difference between a pointer/long and >>> an integer. It'd be nice to have some more explicit APIs on Alien, >>> so I could say "Alien newCInteger" or "Alien newCLong" and have the >>> platform return me the proper size Alien. Even without the platform >>> size differences, it seems awkward to use "Alien newC: 4" everywhere >>> I want an integer, "Alien newC: 8" where I want a double, etc. >>> >> >> Exactly. >> >> It becomes worse once you start having structs and nested structs or >> structs with pointers to structs ;-) >> >> I'm using Alien as the FFI to port JavaConnect from Visualworks to >> Pharo/Squeak. As you say, it is a pain to work at such a low-level >> compared to the DLLCC in VW. I am planning to do some work on >> creating >> a higher-level interface for it such that we can operate it as you >> mention, including the correct bytesizes for all platforms. >> >> At the moment, I'm mostly focusing on getting the port to work right >> before I start creating an interface on top of the current Alien >> interface. >> >> >> > > Something to keep in mind is the need for a straightforward way of > going > the other way: John Mcintosh's port of the Squeak VM to iPhone implies > that the same thing could be done in other Lua-ish situations, > allowing > people to use smalltalk syntax for game scripting. With the right > libraries for an IDE, I would think squeak could be very attractive to > at least some people in place of/in addition to using Lua. > > > Lawson > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
