On 9 November 2012 09:55, drush66 <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > it should not be hard. there is a standard way how to discover/load interface.. i can't promise anything but i'll try to look at docs to point you to right one
-- Best regards, Igor Stasenko.
