[Kde-bindings] QWidgetFactory in ruby

[Richard Dale]

[22:56:19] <taj> QWidgetFactory sucks!
[22:56:53] <taj> AFAIK you can't get widget metadata without actually 
instantiating the UI
[22:57:17]  taj agrees that parsing the UI is a much better solution in the 
medium term
[22:59:24]  taj would be very happy to be proven wrong though
[23:03:45]  taj is working on an import hook for python that allows you to 
directly import ui files instead 
of via pyuic, and so far I can't find a way to do it with QWidgetFactory and 
still allow subclassing of the 
UI-specified widgets

I've reading about the QWidgetFactory, and I wonder if it would be easier to 
either rewrite or translate it to ruby, and parse the .ui file as taj said on 
#kdebindings. Otherwise, the kde plugin will just instantiate vanilla kde 
widgets, they won't be ruby Smoke 'shadow' classes that could be subclassed.

A call like createWidget would be really simple to implement in ruby, and you 
wouldn't need any custom QWidgetFactories - I think all they do is work round 
the undynamic nature of C++:

virtual QWidget * createWidget ( const QString & className, QWidget * parent, 
const char * name ) const

-- Richard