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	description: "[
					Interactive with native system APIs for dynamic loading.
					GTK verson.
																					]"
	status: "See notice at end of class."
	legal: "See notice at end of class."
	date: "$Date$"
	revision: "$Revision$"

class
	API_LOADER_IMP

feature -- Command

	load_module (a_name: STRING): POINTER is
			-- Load module with `a_name'.
			-- `a_name' is LPCTSTR, we should use WEL_STRING here.
		require
			exists: a_name /= Void
		local
			l_c_string: EV_GTK_C_STRING
		do
			l_c_string := a_name
			Result := {EV_GTK_EXTERNALS}.g_module_open (l_c_string.item, 0)
		end

	loal_api (a_module: POINTER; a_name: STRING): POINTER is
			-- Load api which name is `a_name' in `a_module'
		require
			exists: a_module /= default_pointer
			exists: a_name /= Void
		local
			l_c_string: EV_GTK_C_STRING
			l_success: BOOLEAN
			l_result: POINTER
		do
			if a_module /= default_pointer then
				l_c_string := a_name
				l_success := {EV_GTK_EXTERNALS}.g_module_symbol (a_module, l_c_string.item, $l_result)
				if l_success then
					Result := l_result
				end
			end
		end

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	copyright: "Copyright (c) 1984-2007, Eiffel Software"
	license:   "GPL version 2 (see http://www.eiffel.com/licensing/gpl.txt)"
	licensing_options: "http://www.eiffel.com/licensing"
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end