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qbert
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 Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 10:37 pm Post subject: WTL for D |
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With WTL becoming open source ( im not sure the source wasn't always available actually, just that now its on SF ) I think a D port would be very cool. Its only 18 files t totalling ~38K lines , unfotunately it sits atop ATL so that might pose a problem. Thoughts ?
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jcc7
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 12:11 am Post subject: Re: WTL for D |
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| qbert wrote: | With WTL becoming open source ( im not sure the source wasn't always available actually, just that now its on SF ) I think a D port would be very cool. Its only 18 files t totalling ~38K lines , unfotunately it sits atop ATL so that might pose a problem. Thoughts ?
Charles |
I'm in favor of porting everything to D, but I do wonder if ATL dependancy could be a show-stopper.
Is the ATL source freely available? If not, I think that would pose some serious licensing issues for a D port of WTL. (If it's available, please let me know where so I can take a look at it. I found a ATL folder in the MS platform SDK, but it just looks like wrappers the depend on files that I don't have.)
I've already glanced at the WTL source, but I can't tell what's going on. That's probably due to my lack of experience with C++.
(Edit: I guess I should note that there's a thread on this topic in the official newsgroup, too.) |
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jcc7
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| Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 5:01 pm Post subject: WTL and ATL |
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I've looked on the web for some more ATL info. Apparently, atlcom.h as in
"\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98\atl\include\atlcom.h" is one of the essential ATL files. I guess I need to install Visual Studio to have this file.
I did find this file in the Microsoft SDK:
include\Win64\atl\atlcom.h with this cryptic message:
| Quote: | // This is a part of the Active Template Library.
// Copyright (C) 1996-1998 Microsoft Corporation
// All rights reserved.
//
// This source code is only intended as a supplement to the
// Active Template Library Reference and related
// electronic documentation provided with the library.
// See these sources for detailed information regarding the
// Active Template Library product.
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Some other references that I've found:
A short article discussing WTL
ATL section at The Code Project
I'm intrigued by the idea of porting WTL to D, but I still have concerns about the ATL-dependence. For example, Win64\atlcom.h is 5k lines long. The folder contains about 1 MB of source code. |
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svanleent
Joined: 25 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 9:11 am Post subject: WTL versus ATL |
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Although WTL is public domain, it has a very strict dependency on ATL.
ATL -- in contrast to WTL -- is licensed. Thereby, I think support to DWT or DUI would be a better benifit for the language and it's users group, since we can better have one good GUI API as tens of wrong API's.
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Shawn Liu
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Except license, the WTL itself is not easy to port to D, since it is an architecture of multiple-inheritance. |
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