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eC (Ecere C) is an object-oriented language derived from and compatible with C designed and developed by Ecere Corporation. It aims at being fast, light and easy to write. It is supported by a cross-platform runtime library including its own GUI toolkit, 2D/3D graphics engine as well as networking support. The Ecere SDK is completely free and includes a full-featured Integrated Development Environment as well as a compiling tools for the eC language. Some of eC Features
- Full C compatibility (Only exception: few additional reserved keywords such as 'class')
- Object oriented class definitions supporting single inheritance
- Per instance virtual methods
- Import feature removing the need for header files
- Properties
- Automatic conversions
- Context sensitive enumerations
- Component object model enabling dynamic lookup of classes, methods, objects serialization and broking, runtime code class aggregation
Sample Code
Hello, World!! in eC
class HelloApp : Application
{
void Main()
{
printf("Hello, World!!\n");
}
}
Properties & Conversions in eC
class Pen
{
Color color;
public property Color color
{
get { return color; }
set { color = value; }
}
}
// Example Usage
Pen pen { red };
Pen pen { color = red };
pen.color = ~pen.color;
pen.color += 10;
pen.color.r = 255;
pen.color = 0xFF0000;
pen.color = { 255, 0, 0 };
pen.color = ColorHSV { 0, 100, 100 };
pen.color = ColorLab { 53, 79, 66 };
pen.color = ColorCMYK { 0, 100, 100, 0 };
Hello, World!! in a GUI
import "ecere"
class HelloForm : Window
{
text = “Hello, World!! Application";
hasClose = true;
hasMaximize = true;
hasMinimize = true;
size = { 640, 480 };
void OnRedraw(Surface surface)
{
surface.WriteTextf(10, 10, "Hello, World!!");
}
}
HelloForm helloForm {};
