[Adobe-source-devel] APL/WT : Eve surfing on the Web

[Ivan Le L. <iva...@fr...>]

Hi,

Here is a small teaser to announce that I recently achieved
to run part of APL with a Wt widget backend.

For those who don't know Wt, it is a C++ web widget library.
A Wt process is either a built-in http server or a FastCGI plugin.
Their website, built with Wt, and full of online samples :
http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt

My work is based on the "windows" APL backend directory as of 1.0.42.
The Wt switch is made through preprocessor definition : ADOBE_PLATFORM_WT.
No file or directory is Wt-specific. I moved some widget code to simplify cohabitation.
Basically, "plaftorm_widget_utils.hpp" has grown and the .cpp file is the main backend switch.

About half of Eve widgets are done.
I will hopefully find time to fire an online sample this weekend.


Regards,
Ivan.


PS: 
My work is on bitbucket. But I have a huge commit to push today.
http://bitbucket.org/liukahr/asl_wt

My real point was more to ease the writing of eve backends than to use Wt.
I picked Wt mainly because I found it handy for demo purpose.
I intend to port APL to a portable library, 
and these days I am considering Clutter for this task.