FileZilla as a general FTP library

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#16 Post by **botg** » 2004-09-20 10:09

How often do you change color in daily use?

The observed behaviour of wxWidgets if switching colour is caused by internal caching. This increases performance a little bit.
What do you prefer? Performance or instant color switching?

Golyc · #17 Post by **Golyc** » 2004-09-20 16:01

I don´t love windows color so i sacrifice my eyes for performance ! In FZ this shold be the same (i waiting for pentium 99^^ to be happy with my colors !)

quark · #18 Post by **quark** » 2004-09-23 19:40

eyebex wrote:Does this mean we need to link against wxWidgets if we're just interested in FZ3's FTP engine? Even for a non-GUI tool?

I hope not.

eyebex wrote:Anyways, I don't get what all this fuzz is about ... there're plenty good, free and small FTP libraries around [...]

Well, sure, but I hoped FileZilla would be a bit more CLR friendly.

#19 Post by **botg** » 2004-09-23 21:24

quark wrote:
eyebex wrote:Does this mean we need to link against wxWidgets if we're just interested in FZ3's FTP engine? Even for a non-GUI tool?
I hope not.

wxWidgets is a lot more than just a GUI library. It's a complete application framework.

The FTP engine of FZ uses the following components of wxWidgets:

Socket classes
Thread classes
Event handler classes (required for asynchronous sockets)
File handling
String class and gettext compatible string translation
Once I implement MODE Z support in FZ3, the zlib stream classes will be used
some utility functions

I could have written the engine without all that and writing my own classes for it, but that would be like reinventing the wheel: Pointless
Also, using the classes wxWidgets provides greatly reduces the time needed to create FZ3.

Don't be afraid of linking against wxWidgets, it can also be used in non-GUI applications. Right now the engine only works in event-driven wxWidgets apps, but it should not be hard to get it to work in other programs. (Any volunteers here?)

quark · #20 Post by **quark** » 2004-09-24 20:37

botg wrote:wxWidgets is a lot more than just a GUI library. It's a complete application framework.

Ah, okay. I dind't know that. It would still be great if FZ was wrapped in a way that made it simple to program against, even though it would require referencing the wxWidget library. If any of you C++ grokking guys could wrap it all in a COM DLL, I could create the C# wrapper. But since I don't know C++ myself, I can't create the DLL. And without the DLL, P/Invoke is extremely hard (if not impossible).

SplitDiff · #21 Post by **SplitDiff** » 2004-10-31 14:15

Dont know if this link helps at all Quark: http://wxnet.sourceforge.net/

quark · #22 Post by **quark** » 2004-10-31 14:26

SplitDiff wrote:Dont know if this link helps at all Quark: http://wxnet.sourceforge.net/

Not really, because it's not the GUI of Mozilla I'm interested in programming against, but the FTP library. Thanks, though.