[Kde-bindings] Kdejava in Eclipse

[James Ots]

Hi,

I've just written and run my first Kdejava programme. Took me a while though. 
First I had to compile the bindings since SuSE don't supply updated bindings 
with KDE updates. Then I had to work out how to get java to pick up 
libqtjava.so and libkdejava.so. That was the hard part.

From the shell I could either add /opt/kde3/lib/ to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, or add 
-Djava.library.path=/opt/kde3/lib to the java command line. But when I tried 
to run it from inside Eclipse 3.0M8, it could never find qtjava, despite 
trying nearly every way I could think of for telling it how to find it. 
Eventually I copied the .so files into $JAVAHOME/jre/lib/i386, and it worked. 
Is there a better way to do this?

I also noticed that KMainWindow.menuBar() returns a QMenuBar rather than a 
KMenuBar. I expect it's documented somewhere, but I haven't found it yet. Why 
is this?

Anyway, I'm now trying to think of a killer app to write using Kdejava...

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Cheers
James Ots
www.jamesots.com