SinkWorld...

[DoubleDutch]

Anyone done any work with using SinkWorld with PureBasic yet...?

http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/Tentacle.html

It looks like its going to be quite a big improvement on scintilla.

[DoubleDutch]

I posted this on the Scintilla mailing list:

SinkWorld is looking really good. Will it eventually be available as a dll like the Scintilla library?

I just got this reply:

I'm not sure. I don't want to be responsible for a large set of
binary releases and one of the points of SinkWorld is to have a higher
level API which would be better shipped as something like an OCX. I
may even distribute platform adaptations and binaries as a commercial
product while distributing the core as open source.

Neil

So it leads to the question, does anyone have any examples of using an OCX with PureBasic?

[EDIT]

I just looked up OCX on the web and found this:

Short for OLE Control Extension, an independent program module that can be accessed by other programs in a Windows environment. OCX controls end with a .ocx extension. OCX controls represent Microsoft's second generation of control architecture, the first being VBX controls written in Visual Basic.
Both VBX and OCX controls have now been superseded by ActiveX controls. However, ActiveX is backward compatible with OCX controls, which means that ActiveX containers, such as Microsoft's Internet Explorer, can execute OCX components.

So do I really need to know how to interface to ActiveX and that, because of the compatibility will lead to the OCX control being compatible?

[Shannara]

Currently, Purebasic cannot handle OCX is an elegant fashion. Currently consists of several hacks to get an OCX partially working, and generally not worth touching until OCX is actually supported in PureBasic ..

So in short, nope. But hopefully PB 4.x will have OCX support.

[Flype]

@fred
is ocx support in the todo list ?