Thanks Jimmie
Thanks to kick our asses like that!
I would love to have that too in Pharo.
Stef
> Thanks,
>
> I have no knowledge of either the knowledge or the challenges involved in
> using external libraries in Pharo or Squeak. I have no knowledge of FFI/Alien
> or using C/C++/C# or compilers.
>
> However, this is my experience in Python.
>
> Navigate to the directory containing the script makepy.py or if it is a part
> of your Python's sys.path, execute the script. It generates a Python module
> which is on
>
> It pops up a dialogue which prompts you to select the library you wish to
> interface.
>
> Then to use in a script simply
> import Dispatch
> self.mylib = Dispatch("MyLibrary")
>
> This will expose all the functionality of the library.
>
> All provided by the python win32 extensions. It was very successful for my
> needs. I do not know what limitations it may or may not have.
>
> Very easy for non-expert programmers. I would love this level of ability to
> interface outside libraries in Squeak. But I have no idea the effort required
> to automate the generation of a class or classes which interface the external
> library.
>
> In my particular instance this is obviously for a Windows library. I don't
> know if Python has anything comparable for Linux or OSX.
>
> In this particular instance, Python was enabling for me, for which I am
> grateful. Otherwise I might be stuck writing my app in VisualBasic. But
> despite my gratefulness, I spend as little time in Python as possible.
> Despite Python not requiring a compiler, I really hate going to an editor and
> writing code. Then to an interpreter to run code. Hit my stacktrace. Go back
> to the editor. Reload the module in the interpreter and run again, and if
> that doesn't succeed due to the reload not really reloading the new code,
> open in a new interpreter. Ugh!!! Where's my Smalltalk. Give my live object
> system. :)
>
> Jimmie
>
>
