Re: A Windows extension

From: Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 13:56:21 +0000
Subject: Re: A Windows extension
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> > I don't think it is wise to wrap every win32 API known to man; > > using something like ffi for those is probably better, unless > > there is significant demand for having a PHP native version. > For exemple the process to have a simple working "File Open" dialog box > using the Win32 API (not MFC) is a half an hour work i let you imagine what > it can take using ffi. Ack :-) Those dialog boxes can be really nasty. > And i want it to be usefull too for people that don't have access to the > MSDN library (it's not cheap ;). http://msdn.microsoft.com/library is free. > >> - PHP thread support (already working - but need improvements) > > > I think that this is a losing battle (PHP just isn't designed > > to work that way). However, it would be cool if you can get > > something working. It would be better to have that effort > > put into the existing PECL threads package rather than a win32 > > extension > > I got something working ! > For now it work with a call to a script file, it will be better if it can > take a copy of a PHP user level function and i think it could be possible > by using a process similar to those that are used in caches extension. This sounds very much like pecl/threads. Take a look :) --Wez.

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