[Kde-bindings] Implementing Ruby DCOP

[Ashley Winters]

--- Richard Dale <Richard_Dale at tipitina.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>    params = ""
>    stream = Qt::DataStream.new(params, IO_WriteOnly)
>    stream << pid
>    $kapp.dcopClient().emitDCOPSignal("clientDied(pid_t)", params)
> 
> That doesn't look as friendly as:
> 
>    $kapp.dcopClient().emitDCOPSignal( clientDied(pid) )
> 
> Which is more like emitting an ordinary signal. It needs more
> thought..

If I were writing it for Perl, I would likely hijack dcopClient() (or
the object it's returning) to return an object which would accept
methods through AUTOLOAD. I'd try to make it work like:

$kapp->dcopClient->clientDied($pid)

I suspect something similar is possible in Ruby, if so inclined?

Ashley Winters

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