Re: Seek c++ equivalents to HTML::Element and libwww parsing
C.J. Collier (cjcollier@sinclair.net)
Sun, 08 Oct 2000 23:19:56 -0700
Would you consider using GTK+? I know there's a GTK+ module out there. The
documentation is not all that good, but if you know the C API, you can figure it
out with little difficulty.
C.J.
> Dear Perlers,
>
> I have been using libwww-perl for web applications I am migrating to c++.
> (I am not abandoning Perl and will continue to use libwww-perl for many tasks).
>
> The reason I am migrating is that I am writing a Qt GUI for my web apps
> and support for Perl-Qt seems to have ended. Perl-Qt as it stands does not
> quite provide the functionality I need and will not keep up with Qt c++.
>
> However, I cannot find an equivalent to libwww-perl in C++.
> w3c-libwww provides many of the features in one way or another,
> but is not OO.
>
> I have thought of various workarounds, but all seem like very hard work.
> I could call libwww-perl from c++ to perform some functions, but it is not
> clear to me that there is a way to inherit libwww-perl classes into c++.
> In particular I use HTML::Element and the parser heavily.
>
> glad for any advice,
>
> darren
>
> ps: aside: i really miss perl's named parameters. Is there a way of
> using named parameters in c++, perhaps with a precompiler ?