Hi Michael,
One advantage of making it a plugin is that you could then distribute / sell
the plugin as a product in itself once it is complete. This is possible
with the declare route, but is much easier to achieve with a plugin.
Dave.
> From: Michael Williams <lists at mgreg dot com>
> Reply-To: REALbasic Plugins <realbasic-plugins at lists dot realsoftware dot
> com>
> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 18:45:03 -0400
> To: REALbasic Plugins <realbasic-plugins at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
> Subject: Re: Incorporating existing C/C++ libraries into an RB Project. . .?
>
>>
>> If what you have is a shared library (dylib, DLL, ...) with a C
>> interface
>> then you can call it today with declares and you don't need a plug-
>> in at
>> all. If you don't know much about declares I recommend Charles
>> Yeoman's book
>> iDeclare at http://www.declaresub.com/. You need to use a plug-in when
>> either the interfacing becomes complicated or all you have is
>> source code to
>> the library.
>>
>> Chris
>
>
> Well, that's just it; I'll need it for different platforms so I'll
> either 1) need to create a plugin to do what I want or 2) have to
> distribute the shared library with every copy of the program which is
> very prohibitive. As I stated earlier, I'm working with the FITS
> file format and my plan was to make use of the following library:
> http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/fitsio/fitsio.html
>
> If you all could, take a look and let me know what you think.
> Perhaps this is the wrong approach. Perhaps I'm missing something.
> Otherwise, thanks for the great suggestions.
>
> Michael
>
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