Re: A Windows extension

From: Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 14:24:35 +0000
Subject: Re: A Windows extension
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Those dialog boxes can be really nasty. Hey ! It's new style dialog boxes !!! :p
This sounds very much like pecl/threads. Take a look :) I'd like to, but i cant' find it on PECL .... (i can't find ffi too)
At 14:56 07/11/2003, Wez Furlong wrote:
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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