Re: GUI Toolkit for Win32

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

CHU Run-min wrote:
> My idea is that Lua script like a hook to the native GUI system.
> There is a general hook function in Lua, OnWindowMessage(hwnd, msg_name,...)
> There is also a general window procedure in C. It translates some
> necessary window messages to Lua by calling OnWindowMessage.
> We will subclass all created window to the general window procedure
> and save old window procedure in window's user data field.
> SetWindowLongPtr(hwnd, GWLP_USERDATA, (LONG_PTR)SubclassWindow(hwnd,
> SubclassProc));
>
> The window message will be forward to old window procedure unless
> OnWindowMessage returns true.
>
> Now, we call do something with OnWindowMessage.

Why not just use wxLua? It is a really nice interface to wxWidgets from 
Lua. It has all the characteristics you want. It uses the native widget 
library and can be scripted from Lua. The only disadvantage is that it 
is a bit big, around 3MB if you link with every possible widget. But 
that's not much of an issue for most environments from what I have seen. 
 And it has the added benefit of being cross platform. A wxLua app 
written for Win32 will behave the same on Linux, using the native GTK 
widgets or Motif, and on Mac OS 9 or 10! It even works on some embedded 
systems, including Palm OS. Hard to beat all that...

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