[Kde-bindings] ruby bindings

[Germain Garand]

Le Jeudi 03 Juillet 2003 14:05, Richard Dale a écrit :
> I adapted the Qt Designer cppeditor plugin for java as 'javaeditor' to see
> what could be customised via a Designer plugin. Unfortunately I found it
> isn't possible to customise the lists of signal/slot types displayed to
> show java, 

Ah, interesting... I faced the same issues with the perleditor.
Now, if there are more and more people interested in having Designer plugins, 
things could change fast.
I've forwarded most important issues/wishlist items upstream ( bug in the 
DesignerFormWindow::addFunction() interface, isCpp() locks all over the 
place, need for a language agnostic function/slot dialog, and more generally 
better access to the MetaDataBase) and so far had good feedback (though 
*very* slowly).
The only stumbling block left in 3.2 is a one and only isCpp() lock, that was 
most unfortunately forgotten by Marius B. Monsen when he removed the others 
(so that's another roundtrip through qt-bugs@ :-(( )

Could I send a reminder mentionning your work as well (and maybe the ongoing 
work on ruby?) ?

Anyway, for what concerns the signal/slot dialog, I found out that it was 
possible to turnaround by using the classbrowser interface, with quite some 
sore hacks, to mimic the "Members" tab behaviour (a tab that is disabled when 
your plugin isn't Cpp)...
From there, you can produce custom signal/slot registering dialogs, and 
register the input in the MetaDataBase by using 
DesignerFormWindow::addFunction(), which is now fixed.

It doesn't fix the global function/slot dialog problem, but it does add an 
alternate, target language friendly way of inputing functions/slots...

Germain