Namespaces are halting me!

Moonshine · Post by **Moonshine** » Sun Jun 27, 2004 10:05 pm

Ive been desperately trying to find various DLLs to work with PB but all use namespaces and so I cant really try to interface them. All I would like is if PB had support for namespaces (just when dealing with external DLLs) and I could probably get a multitude of them working. Why does the world have to be so.... C++?

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 10:52 am

what *are* namespaces?

Edwin Knoppert · Post by **Edwin Knoppert** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 11:28 am

>actually, i've never been much in seven of nine

You wish

Well , not that pretty though..

Moonshine · Post by **Moonshine** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 2:36 pm

>actually, i've never been much in seven of nine

You wish

Well , not that pretty though..

What the hell?

what *are* namespaces?

Namespaces are an OO feature of C++ and the like - they are a measure to prevent two libs clashing when both libs have a command with the same name. An example would be DLL1 and DLL2 - imagine these both had a command called GetString() or something like that. If you typed GetString() into your prog that was using both these libs, bad things would happen because it wouldnt know which DLL you were referring to. Therefore the DLL's use namespaces - in C++ it would look like DLL1::GetString() and DLL2::GetString(). this way it knows which you mean and problems are avoided.

Basically every DLL Ive found uses namespaces and without an equivalent in PB, they cant really be used. For example in the Irrlicht 3d engine it uses the namespaces irr::, irr::core, irr::gui, irr::io, irr::scene and irr:video whereby classes are contained within these namespaces.

Its only a small thing and I just thought PB might benefit from the compatibility.

Edwin Knoppert · Post by **Edwin Knoppert** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 3:11 pm

>What the hell?
Naah, heaven

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 3:31 pm

it's heaven of nine

if it only would be seven of mine

oh darn, getting poetic on my age...

dmoc · Post by **dmoc** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 5:43 pm

oh darn, getting poetic on my age...

I have to say with much sadness, it be the first sign of madness!

ivory · Post by **ivory** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 6:51 pm

As a work around, if you desperately need access to a library, I suppose someone could write a C++ wrapper to call the namespace functions and export non-namespace functions.

And if someone fluent in C++ provides that for you, I think MS provides C++ compilers free to download (I don't know if they are .net, or if namespaces requires .net). I imagine, with one program in hand, as a template, others would not be too difficult.