Fernando olivero-2 wrote > Hi, i wanted to give my opinion on this, since i've encountered some of > the > problems you mention. > > Sometimes to benefit from the simplicity of Smalltalk while coexisting > with > other tools, we must cope with low level technology "glue code". > > NB made it easy to do so, compared to Alien,FFI, writing plugins in C. > When > i first started with Squeak and the Pharo1.0, it was a real pain > interfacing with external libraries, THANKS Igor! > > Still someones needs to do it, hence why a lot of people of > this community spent loads of time coding this "extra work" to be able to > do their "real work". > > I wouldn't say that you need to be extremely bright to built a wrapper > library using NB, once you know what api you want to call, and the type of > arguments. > > There's plenty of examples out there, and Igor always responds with tough > questions! > > Give a try! maybe its easier than you think. > > Fernando
just to clarify, I was not referring to interfacing to c library which is rather well covered by NB, but to COM. ----- http://www.cloud208.com/ -- View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/NB-Capabilities-tp4654570p4654631.html Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
