Re: [isugamedev-devel] Re: image lib

[Kevin M. <ke...@vr...>]

uh, ignore the word "inlined"...  that didn't make sense.  (inlined would 
work too though it could bloat the code you use it in)


On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Kevin Meinert wrote:

> 
> so... inlined pseudo-COM is good... whew!  I've always kind of had that in 
> mind for DLL stuff anyway.  since I like cross platform stuff, C++, and 
> since I read the Box book (COM book), I've always assumed that we could write our 
> own limited subset of COM...  but have never tried it.. :)  seems like the 
> lightest weight, most expressive (C or C++ syntax), most portable 
> option...   
> 
>   does this meet both of our priorities?
> 
> we still haven't settled on using std::io stuff or FILE, std::string stuff or char*
> 
> I'm fine with whatever there, as long as the code doesn't get more brittle 
> (like if we have to do lots of new and delete).  
> 
> NOTE: we can always move the proj from gamedev to a SF.net project.  and 
> the name isn't too permanent.  I just wanted to get it up so people could 
> use it if they wanted...
> 
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
> On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Chad Austin wrote:
> 
> > > can we use our own com-like thing?
> > 
> > Yeah, we could.  COM is a Microsoft-defined ABI (you can write COM objects in VB
> > and assembly and they will get along just fine because they know exactly how to
> > communicate).  So if we somehow guaranteed a COM-compatible ABI (or at least
> > something similar), we'd be okay.
> > 
> > > as i understand COM, all you need is:
> > > 
> > > - abstract interface
> > > - implementations for that interface
> > > - factory to give you those implementations
> > > - keep the interface the same (don't change it or you'll break bin
> > >   compatibility)
> > > 
> > > this would (hopefully?) let us keep a small foot print, and not depend on
> > > outside libs (like xpcom, or COM), and avoid the nasty C style OO
> > > interface that we'd need to convert to.
> > > 
> > > I know this works with VC++, but will it port to other compilers?
> > 
> > I believe that all Windows compilers at least support an option for
> > COM-compatible vtable layouts (it'd be suicide not to support COM), so I guess
> > that'll work.
> > 
> 
> 

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