Re: [open-cobol-list] Cobol + GTK

[Brian Tiffin]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:50:30 -0500, Patrick  
<address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Brian
>
> Thanks so much for your valuable input!
>
> It's been cold here too in Toronto but we are getting away with murder  
> this winter overall....
>
> Say I just wanted to bounce some ideas around.....
>
>
> Thanks to your work we have a lua binding now:
> http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com/#can-opencobol-interface-with-lua
>
>
> Have you considered using the Lua GTK binding? I was worried that it  
> might be hard to manage all the variables. The Lua C-to-lua stack is  
> find but I was thinking that it might be quite a lot of work. Am I  
> wrong? Do you think there would be namespace issues or some other  
> challenges? It seems that the Lua API likes globals.
>
> Gfortran was built using a python script(included in the source tarball)  
> to generate much of it's code:
> https://github.com/jerryd/gtk-fortran/wiki
>
> Do you think something like this would work for opencobol ?

Yes, yes I do.  And I've been thinking along those lines for a Python  
wrapper, have a code gen pass handle all the method and data marshaling.

> Your awesome, I have found you all over the net, the Ada google group,  
> an opera forumn, the lua wiki(for your binding) and of course at  
> http://opencobol.add1tocobol.com. You are a very bright guy and a  
> tireless worker!

Why thank you Patrick.   Doesn't feel like work though, more like a soiree.

> -Patrick

Cheers,
Brian