John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 01:24:54AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
>
>> | I've tried hard, but I'm at a loss to work out why these aren't
>> | in a namespace instead. It might do something about the butt-ugly
>> | names too ...
>> 
>> How does extern "C" and namespaces mix?
>> Remember that this has to be a 'C'-api.
>
| It does ? Some weird dynamic linking thing, huh ?

Yes. dlopen is a c thingie.

>> sorry, but I do not understand this sentence completely.
>
| That's 'coz I'm flaming you whilst being offtopic. If I was offensive
| too I'd win all three !

Hu? Champions League, UEFA cup, and Premier League?

>> but! I am not introducing more pimpls, more like the first step is
>> going towards a dynamically loaded frontend gui.
>
| But then you reject my obvious code, and come up with (stupid) solutions
| that would totally prevent dynamic loading.

What? Now you completely lost me...
(or are you just mixing discussions again, stay on topic please)

>> class Dialogs {
>>       void showSomeDialog() {
>>            staitc function0<void) sSd = getGUISymbol<void>("showSomeDialog");
>
| Couldn't we use LD_PRELOAD or similar to resolve stuff, rather than
| dlopen tricks ?

Eh? Why would we do that?
The requires a pretty smart linker, I am not sure if all systems have
that. How can the preferred gui then be placed in lyxrc?


| Besides, the LyX team have been messing about with GUIIsation of the
| dialogs for, what, 3 years ? More ?

I am happily accepting patches...
It is not I that is driving the GUII effort (and it never was).

| How about getting your act together and actually getting a working
| system off the ground first, and then all the playrooming can happen
| after ?

Have you seen any dl code introduced yet?
What act?

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        Lgb

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