Re: [wxlua-users] Simple wxLua web access?

Andreas Krinke wrote:
(Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:43:12 -0700)

> local url = wx.wxURL("http://www.google.com";)
> local stream = url:GetInputStream()
> while stream:CanRead() do
>   textCtrl:AppendText(stream:Read(78))
> end

One other thing.. I added a line to get the error:

local url = wx.wxURL("http://www.google.com")
local stream = url:GetInputStream()
print(url:GetError())
while stream:CanRead() do
  print(stream:Read(78))
end

It printed a 3 which I checked with this:

print(wx.wxURL_NOERR,wx.wxURL_SNTXERR,wx.wxURL_NOPROTO,wx.wxURL_NOHOST,wx.wxURL_NOPATH,wx.wxURL_CONNERR,wx.wxURL_PROTOERR)

So it can't find the host. As this is a simple thing that a vast number of tools can do on W98 I won't be blaming the OS. Hopefully wxWidgets will become as cross-platform as its billing suggests. W98 is founded on a decades-old and extremely small, fast and useful base (DOS) and plenty of people value that even if Microsoft don't. I hope that people who support cross-platform efforts don't too readily do what Microsoft want them to do, to give up on it.