Re: [fltk.development] C API experiment

2013-02-22 Thread Sanel Zukan
Hi, How seriously you need C API? I'm asking, since some projects I've seen made a couple of small wrappers around essential classes/functions just to allow them making basic UI (e.g. there is a minimal wrapper for Haskell). If you need something serious, I'm interested too because I'm seeking

Re: [fltk.development] [RFE] STR #2904: Native file chooser isn'texactly native on linux

2013-02-22 Thread Sanel Zukan
First of all, thank you for detail reply on STR page (writing here to reduce noise out there). True, there are a lot issues with system()-ing external dialogs, but my original idea was to leverage FLTK usage by (maybe) creating platform specific emulations (in FLTK), just like Qt guys did for Qt.

Re: [fltk.development] C API experiment

2013-02-22 Thread Patrick
Hi Sanel Thanks for responding to my post. Your ideas are terrific. I know a little about swig and pyFLTK but I didn't know anything about the other two options. So I have been going around it circles on and off for two years with GUI tookkits. I have tried virtually all of them now. I don't

Re: [fltk.development] C API experiment

2013-02-22 Thread Ian MacArthur
Hi Patrick,Sounds like you are working your way through the history of language development, but in reverse order!;-)C++ - Ada - Cobol ...!Cheers,-- IanSent, much to my surprise, from my Palm Pre3On 22 Feb 2013 14:46, Patrick patr...@spellingbeewinnars.org wrote: Hi Sanel Thanks for responding to

Re: [fltk.development] C API experiment

2013-02-22 Thread Albrecht Schlosser
On 22.02.2013 15:46, Patrick wrote: I have realized that pretty much everything I like about Ada is available from Cobol too and I have recently switched my focus. Open Cobol compiles to intermediate C. I was trying to figure out how to call back into C++ from C but then I finally realized I

Re: [fltk.development] C API experiment

2013-02-22 Thread Patrick
Hi Albert I can start in C++ or Cobol but I have to be able to call back into C++ to change widget properties during callbacks. I am not proposing anything that would change FLTK itself, just a seperate wrapper. I don't like C++ but that does not mean it is not very useful, virtually every

Re: [fltk.development] C API experiment

2013-02-22 Thread Greg Ercolano
On 02/22/13 06:46, Patrick wrote: Having said that, I think that a C binding would really help the project and I would like to help, please let me know if I can. IIRC, FLTK started as a C++ rewrite of C based xforms (and by extension, forms) xforms is still around:

Re: [fltk.development] C API experiment

2013-02-22 Thread Patrick
Hi Greg I seriously considered using X forms and read through the source. There is significant overlap between the two. I don't think it is viable for me though. Thanks again On 13-02-22 03:03 PM, Greg Ercolano wrote: On 02/22/13 06:46, Patrick wrote: Having said that, I think that a C

[fltk.development] reworking examples folder

2013-02-22 Thread Patrick
Greg's post reminded me of something I wanted to bring up. His examples here: http://seriss.com/people/erco/fltk/ Are really good, why are they not in the examples folder? In addition there are some really cheesey bitmaps in the test folder that came from X forms. Would anyone like me to find

Re: [fltk.development] reworking examples folder

2013-02-22 Thread Greg Ercolano
On 02/22/13 15:15, Patrick wrote: If you have suitable pixmaps, might be worth a shot: we'd need to be sure about the licensing and copyright mind you - that seems to be much more a pain these days that in was back in the day... What about this site: http://openclipart.org/ Presently

Re: [fltk.development] reworking examples folder

2013-02-22 Thread Patrick
Yes, something compatible with whatever we come up with for our examples (zlib license, etc) would be fine. I can also draw stuff if something custom is needed. I have an under utilized BFA in animation, which means I can draw silly things on the backs of scrap

Re: [fltk.development] reworking examples folder

2013-02-22 Thread Greg Ercolano
On 02/22/13 18:03, Patrick wrote: I only use Linux but I would like to learn a little more about developing on Windows. Could you tell me where the necessary Visual Studio files are. Maybe I will try a suicide mission and give it a try in the next couple of months. See the fltk