Re: Dia plugins and C++

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, Pierre Pronchery wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm developping a Dia plugin for 2 weeks now, and I started in C.
> I may host it somewhere, but it's very specific and so not interesting
> to include directly in Dia project.
>
> Now I'd like to use C++, because I need to build and see special trees
> based on my plugin graphical language, and I want to be able to do it
> while editing the diagram.
>
> question: can I use both C and C++ in a Dia plugin?
> else, can I use C++, or do I have to use C?

I think C++ would work ok, as the function calling works the same for
non-member functions.  You may have to do the inline C {} thing for the
includes, at least.

-Lars

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