LINK Topics - 3) Integrating Libraries

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3) Integrating Libraries

VL makes it particularly simple to integrate basically any .Net library. There are tons of libraries available. What are common patterns, best practices when importing and wrapping third-party libraries for use in a visual-programming language.

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valuable contributions (md.*, imagepack) waste away in usage for average patchers by being combined into oversized personal packs that are hard to maintain, rather than by funcitonality

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protocol from the 3 sessions we had during link 2018 on this topic:

  • we talked about who has experience with what libraries

  • cam to the conclusion we need a “c# examples docu”

    • implementations most likely starting from c# examples for the libraries
    • also we find c# examples on stackoverflow
    • need reference where we can quickly find c# patterns and their translations to vl
      • using, async, events, observables, task, new, fields, if-assigned-region(?), interfaces, lambda & delegates,…
    • in the reference also link to specific libraries that make use of specific patterns as “real world best practice examples”

  • we talked about possible improvements the VL editor:

    • vl demos and help-patches are coming next with skia now in the house
    • helpbrowser
    • ctrl+m feature (documenting libs/nodes) could be better integrated. we have structured info about libs. think about what to do with it
    • can the nodebrowser be able to look for types in pins…
    • tooltips should show more info and even tips and links to examples
    • debugging improvements

  • we briefly talked about how to organize package releases. automatic buids via appvayor from github repos

  • work was started on

  • we tried to push the wip section on the forum a bit by writing down all our latest pet projects. hoping that others follow our example.

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