[Kde-bindings] Lua bindings

[Richard Dale]

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 20:11, Ariel Manzur wrote:
> Hi..
>
> I'm interested in aplying for a 'summer of code' project. I maintain
> lua_qt (http://www.codenix.com/~tolua/lua_qt), which is a set of qt4
> bindings for the Lua scripting language, so my idea was to produce
> bindings for a subset of the kde API, to allow qt applications
> 'integrate' well with kde (like using DCOP, session management, global
> configuration things, using the 'parts' (I know about the 'kate part',
> I assume there's a 'konqueror part' and a 'kde media player part')).
> Obviously the actual work of generating the binding code is easy (once
> we get a 'clean' api we use a code generator), but there would have to
> be a lot of testing, so I thought I'd start with the most important
> parts, and move on to the rest of the api after that.
It should be quite easy to wrap the code to read in KParts, and then you can 
connect to their slots and signals and do things with them. And if you have 
DCOP support you can script apps too - there are several DCOP bindings 
projects, so you can get ideas on what to do from those. By the time KDE4 
comes out, it should have DBUS based ipc though, so it would only be worth 
doing DCOP if you wrap Qt3.

> I was wondering if there's interest in this (I've seen that there are
> other methods of generating bindings used in kde at the moment), and
> also what would be the best way to get help defining this initial api.
Well the python and ruby bindings both wrap the entire Qt/KDE api. The most 
similar project to yours is the kjsembed one which are bindings for 
JavaScript. The developers are Richard Moore and Ian Geiser, and there is a 
separate mailing list for kjsembed, so perhaps you could ask about an api 
subset there. It sounds interesting to me, and would be a good summer of code 
project. There is also the plasma api which might be good to wrap with Lua, 
but I don't know if it's actually defined yet.

-- Richard