Re: [wxlua-users] wx2.9

[klaas.holwerda <ng...@kl...>]

John Labenski wrote:
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> Try to not be so lazy?
I already don't understand how you managed to do what wxLua is right 
now, more like overly active i would say :-)
>  Seriously though, I have written a parser in
> Lua for the XML output from the wxWidgets Doxygen documentation. It
> can read in all 1000+ files and generate a Lua table with all the
> pertinent data saved in a nice orderly manner. It is complete in that
> it understands everything in the files and gives warning messages if
> there is anything in the XML file that is not understood.
>   
Oke, that sounds promising.
> 6) Redo all the build files. (this is the hard part)
>   
I assume you mean  the bakefile stuff.
I am not a fan of bakefile, never appealed to me.
But Premake would fit wxlua perfectly ;-)
I am using Cmake, and only because i can understand it, and it is well 
documented etc.
And what i like is that it is possible to generate the binding during 
the build process.

With 2.9 all is unicode, and also other things have become more simple.
> This is a massive undertaking for me, but yes I still  plan to do it.
>   
Indeed, will read it a few time more to understand it :-)

> >From the looks of it, making 2.8 and 2.9 work together would be
> impossible. 
I am not aware so much changed. But you must be right. With wxArt2D i 
had to change not to much.
But that was easy, wxLua has to deal with all changes.
> You can freely hack away at the generated C binding files
> on stuff that you don't care about. For example, if some class
> function changed or disappeared, just rem out the code inside these
> functions to make them like the code below. Obviously, that
> feature/function won't work, but if you don't plan to use it it's a
> quick and easy way to get wxLua to compile again.
> static int wxLua_wxClass_FunctionName(lua_State* L) { return 1; }
>   
Maybe i will try once more. The main thing is that users are asking for 
2.9, and i can only offer them half.
But then again, i never had a question on the use of wxLua within 
wxArt2D, so i guess most user don't enable the option :-(
To bad, since it makes so much possible.
>> Or do you think you will find time to change the whole binding stuff to
>> XML/doxygen based.
>> Maybe just get it working for 2.9 for the moment, is less a problem??
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> I haven't tried, but I don't think it should be too hard to get 2.9
> working with the current bindings, but then again, maybe a lot more
> has changed than I remember. The hardest part is maintaining the class
> heirarchy, because that will cause serious problems.
>   
Oke i remember that.
And if i can be of help somehow, let me know.
At least i can test ;-)

Klaas