Re: [ANN] Winapi 2nd beta

[Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@...>]

On 13/06/2011 11.16, steve donovan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is the second beta release of winapi:  basic Windows bindings for Lua.

Hooray!!! :-D

> The major change is that (mostly) the library works with widechar
> unicode internally, and allows you to specify the encoding up front.
> By default it is CP_ACP, but you can set it explicitly to UTF-8.
> Running this in SciTE puts a little bit of Greek in the caption:
>
>      local W = require 'winapi'
>      W.set_encoding(W.CP_UTF8)
>      win = W.foreground_window()
>      win:set_text 'ελληνική'
>
> There is a 'get_disk_network_name' function for finding out the UNC
> name mapped to a particular drive.
>
> As suggested, P:get_process_name(true) will give the full path of a
> process; the default is just to give the exe name.

Excellent!

> show_message is now generalized like so:
>
> winapi.show_message("Message","stuff\nand nonsense","yes-no","warning")
>
> Another change is that there is an explicit Thread object returned
> from functions like winapi.timer, which supports suspend, resume and
> kill methods.
>
> Precompiled binary for Lua for Windows is at [1]; source zipball is at
> [2]. Docs are at [3] and [4].
>
> (Still only 25K !)

Ok, this is almost magic! Now if there were an equally powerful library 
for *NIX systems (with the same low footprint) plus a lightweight 
abstraction layer, then we could have a nice little cross-platform 
automation tool (at ~100kB + Lua) :-)

> steve d.
>
> [1] http://stevedonovan.github.com/files/winapi-1.1.zip
> [2] http://stevedonovan.github.com/files/winapi-1.1-lfw.zip
> [3] http://stevedonovan.github.com/winapi/
> [4] http://stevedonovan.github.com/winapi/api.html

-- Lorenzo