Note: this is a personal side project -- not something endorsed by
REALSoftware. Basically.. this is me talking as an RB-user, not as an
RS-employee. :-)
So I've been thinking of working on another open source project, but
it's a rather large undertaking. So before I dive right into it, I'd
like to see about a few things (we'll get back to that). Basically, I
am looking into porting the Win32 APIs into RB modules so that you can
use them natively from within RB. You don't have to look up what
constants to use, or have to figure out how to write the API yourself.
You can just call it. For example, you could do things like this:
User32.SetWindowLong( myRBWindow, User32.GWL_ID, someNewID )
This is a different concept than the Win32 Declare Library (which will
probably be renamed to avoid confusion) in that this set of
functionality will just wrap APIs -- not string them together to try to
provide new classes or sets of functionality.
What I am wondering is:
1) Is there enough interest in this sort of thing to warrant the project?
2) Are there people familiar enough with declare writing and Windows
that would like to help do the port?
If there's enough interest, and enough people willing to pitch in (we
really only need a handful of people), then I'd be happy to organize the
project and get everything rolling.
If you're interested in either the concept, or helping out (or both!)
please contact me off-list so we don't generate a whole ton of traffic
on the topic.
Thanks!
~Aaron
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