Hi,

with the recent initiatives to create bindings to C libraries and port C/C++ code to D, I thought the integration into Visual D of some tools written some time ago could be helpful. It proved to be a bit more work than expected to get them in shape, but finally the C++ to D converter seems usable. Read more about it here: http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/Tour/CppConversion
There is also a command line version available for those not working with Visual Studio.

There are more changes in this release:

  * highlighting: new colors for user defined list of types (defaults to basic types in object.d, see http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/Tour/Editor)
  * disabled versions: fixed wrong highlighting when editing before conditional
  * fixed freeze in startup due to thread starting issues (probably only happened with more than 2 cores)
  * added C++ to D conversion wizard
  * added installation for Visual Studio 11
  * tweaked dialogs to better integrate with VS

Visual D is a Visual Studio package providing both project management and language services for the D programming language. It works with Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010 as well as the free Visual Studio Shells.

The Visual D installer can be downloaded from its website at http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald

Happy coding,
Rainer

Am 03.12.2011 11:13, schrieb Rainer Schuetze:
> Hi,
> 
> with the recent initiatives to create bindings to C libraries and port C/C++ code to D, I thought the integration into Visual D of some tools written some time ago could be helpful. It proved to be a bit more work than expected to get them in shape, but finally the C++ to D converter seems usable. Read more about it here: http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/Tour/CppConversion

Hi,


I am really curious about the C++ to D converter, but I can't find a menu entry for it in the Visual D submenu. Do I have to enable something, somewhere ?

best,

Adrian.

On 03.12.2011 12:04, Adrian wrote:
>
>
> Am 03.12.2011 11:13, schrieb Rainer Schuetze:
>> Hi,
>>
>> with the recent initiatives to create bindings to C libraries and port
>> C/C++ code to D, I thought the integration into Visual D of some tools
>> written some time ago could be helpful. It proved to be a bit more work
>> than expected to get them in shape, but finally the C++ to D converter
>> seems usable. Read more about it here:
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/visuald/wiki/Tour/CppConversion
>
> Hi,
>
>
> I am really curious about the C++ to D converter, but I can't find a
> menu entry for it in the Visual D submenu. Do I have to enable
> something, somewhere ?
>
> best,
>
> Adrian.

Hmmm, should appear as "C++ conversion wizard" in the Visual D menu.

It might be an update issue of the menu, it is cached by Visual Studio. What version of Visual Studio are you using?

You should also find a command "VisualD.ConversionWizard" in the keyboard assignment dialog.

i neither see the menu entry nor the command assignment, too. i'm using the vs shell 2008.

On 3. 12. 2011 16:02, Mirko Pilger wrote:
> i neither see the menu entry nor the command assignment, too. i'm using
> the vs shell 2008.
>
>

I don't see it either after upgrading from previous version in vs shell 2010

I can confirm the problem on another computer. I'll look into it...

On 03.12.2011 16:02, Mirko Pilger wrote:
> i neither see the menu entry nor the command assignment, too. i'm using
> the vs shell 2008.
>
>

Should be fixed now, I've replaced the installer.

I also noticed that the fonts in the dialogs look ugly on XP (I have tweaked it on Win7), I still have to figure out what fonts VS is using.

On 03.12.2011 16:27, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> I can confirm the problem on another computer. I'll look into it...
>
> On 03.12.2011 16:02, Mirko Pilger wrote:
>> i neither see the menu entry nor the command assignment, too. i'm using
>> the vs shell 2008.
>>
>>

On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:13:03 +0200, Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario@gmx.de> wrote:

> C++ to D converter

Step 1: Use C++ to D converter on DMD source code
Step 2: Integrate ported DMD source code into Visual D for perfect semantic features
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit!

But seriously, great work!

-- 
Best regards,
 Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir@thecybershadow.net

> Should be fixed now, I've replaced the installer.

i can confirm this for vs shell 2008 on win xp sp3. i'll give it a shot and feed it some c++ code later this evening.

thanks for your work.

On 03.12.2011 16:53, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 12:13:03 +0200, Rainer Schuetze <r.sagitario@gmx.de>
> wrote:
>
>> C++ to D converter
>
> Step 1: Use C++ to D converter on DMD source code
> Step 2: Integrate ported DMD source code into Visual D for perfect
> semantic features

That was also my idea 2 years ago when I wrote most of the converter, but I am no longer sure the dmd code would work so well in an IDE.

> Step 3: ???
> Step 4: Profit!
>
> But seriously, great work!
>

Thanks.