RE: [VB4Linux-Dev] (no subject)

[Abhijit P. <abh...@ma...>]

ya...Linux versions of VB OCX or DLLs would be good...
any idea of what exactly an OCX is...I mean...fileformat information?

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> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 6:41 PM
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> Well, the /BEST/ way to do this would be to make a pre-emulator which
> makes a Linux version of any DLL or OCX and then I can simply run all the
> Visual Basic.NET DLLs and OCXes thru it... Whether this is possible tho,
> is a different thing... Also, I'm pretty sure all the VB DLLs and OCXes
> are okay to distribute cuz usually they'd be useless...
> 
> abh...@ma... wrote:
> 
> > > could we leverage the Tcl/Tk debug environment for our
> > > debugging program if
> > > we code vb2c in Tcl/Tk? any idea how? In that case it could be
> > > of help...
> > >
> > > Well coding it in a higher level language like Tcl would give you a
> > > speeder turn around in development time as you know (and more people
> > > could support it).  We could write hooks in C (in the support libs we
> > will
> > > need anyway) to help with debugging and could generate the calls for
> > them
> > > on the fly in Tcl from the debugger (It would be easier for "code
> > > injection" with it), so yes it could help.
> > >
> > > There are a couple of other options for debugging.  We could
> > > generate a.out
> > > or elf stubs section with the debugging symbols and write and
> > > extension for
> > > gdb.  This would take more time tho.  We could also write a VM and
> > have
> > > hooks into it for debugging.
> >
> > I think it would be the best to code debugger in C.
> >
> > vb apps in design stage would use pre-existing .so files to run in a
> > virtual environment where the debugger would be present. Once we have
> > to release the vb app, we shall then put it thro vb2c.
> >
> > Also, about using wine libs...looks OK on the surface, but can we
> > emulate only a specific dll or OCX using wine?
> > Also, when we want to emulate them, we'd need to have them
> > first...which means we need to have M$ VisualBasic installed on the win
> > partition first...before VB4Linux can use the OCX files...which is not
> > what should be.
> > ...which could mean that we have to have native OCX files....
> >
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