Re: Gnome Scan Weekly Report 2007/07/31

[Hubert Figuiere <hub figuiere net>]

�ienne Bersac wrote:

> The problem is that Abiword and OCRopus are in C++. I should write the
> plugin in C++, but i have never wrote a line of C++. Sadely, the
> university only teach us that f* Java language. I guess i could use
> Gnome Scan directly in the plugin, but i better prefer to write a C++
> binding. Any comment are welcome.

You don't need a C++ binding. AbiWord does not use any C++ bindings for
Gtk. It just call Gtk and Glib directly. That's one of the good things
about C++ [1]
If you know Java, you should be able to get away in C++ without too much
trouble.

Hub

[1] and yes it has also a negative side.