rob, 'allo, let things calm down a bit. apologies about the mistakes, i was a bit upset by what you wrote. that's for me to deal with, but... all the same - sorry for the consequences.
yeah i am not particularly enamoured with gobject either. its dependence on glib, which is supposed to be platform-independent, is a bit... eugh. i've been looking around at the alternatives (the embedded alternatives, which stand a chance of being smaller and designed for the job). they all require c++ with one exception: the phillips / nxp common object model (again "inspired by" COM). unfortunately, its bloody compiler nxpidl appears to only be available from phillips, directly. arse. so i am going to persist with trying to get tangramCOM up-and-running. when you get right down to the basics, it's *not* heavy-weight, does *not* require large amounts of win32 code, and the design is supposed to be completely independent of OLE[32] so doesn't need _that_ heap-o-junk dragged in. ... i may be some time.... but that's ok because you're about a year off of tackling this anyway. /peace. l.
