RE: Dll's Basic Question

  • From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:35:15 -0400 (EDT)

Wrapper modules are created in dynamic languages so that the programmer
can use the syntax and style of that language.  Inside the module
definitions are calls to the DLLs written in C++, such as the WxWidgets
library written in C++.

Jamal
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008
james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:04:47 -0400
> From: james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Dll's Basic Question
>
> Hi,
> I don't know if this is along the same subject, so please feel free to
> change the subject if I am off topic. Here's something else I've always
> wanted to know. When they made WX Widgets, how were they able to make it so
> that you could write your code in languages other than the original one?
> For example, they created WXPython and WXPerl. How is it possible for the
> Python or Perl interpreter to suddenly realize that WX is there and that
> the Python or Perl statements are trying to do something that was not in
> the original package?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jim
>
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