[Kde-bindings] Wt ruby bindings

[Richard Dale]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Koen Deforche <koen.deforche at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey Richard,
>
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Richard Dale <richard.j.dale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I didn't have time at Akademy, but yesterday I got the code generation
> > working for a Wt smoke library for use with Ruby bindings, and it now
> builds
> > and links with 130 or so Wt:: classes. The coverage of the api is pretty
> > complete apart from the WSignalBase/WSignal classes and the methods that
> > take function pointers, or templated arguments. The next steps would be:
>
> That sounds very promising indeed...
>
> > * Get a 'hello world' working by linking to the QtRuby runtime
> > * Find out how much interest there would be in a Ruby Wt binding by
> mailing
> > the Wt list
> > * Create a WtRuby project be removing all Qt-specific code from QtRuby
> > * Write marshallers for the various std::vector and std::map types etc
> > * Work out how to do slots/signals in Ruby.
> >
> > I don't think I should put the code in the KDE svn as it isn't really
> > possible to use it with any KDE code. So it could go on the Korundum
> > RubyForge project or maybe as another WtRuby project on RubyForge. I'll
> > check in the changes needed for the 'kalyptus' code generator as that
> won't
> > do any harm. I've attached a tar ball of the smoke project, and I'll cc
> this
> > mail to the kdebindings list.
>
> Rubyforge sounds like a good place for this?
>
Yes I think a WtRuby project on Rubyforge is best.


> > Here are the issues that I came across:
> >
> > * The multiple inclusion guard macro on WPolygonArea was wrong
>
> Oops.
>
> > * An include was missing from WTableRow for WTableCell (I can special
> case
> > this, but the include should be there I think)
>
> I've changed this by a forward declaration to WTableCell. That should be
> fine?

Yes that works fine too thanks.


>
>
> > The following methods gave problems with linking, which usually means
> they
> > are declared in the header, but not defined (I haven't checked what went
> > wrong, just suppressed the code generation for now):
> >
> > Wt::RemoveExposedSignal(Wt::EventSignalBase*)
> > Wt::AddExposedSignal(Wt::EventSignalBase*)
> > Wt::WDate::isLeapYear(int)
> > Wt::WDate::isValid(int, int, int)
> > Wt::WPainter::drawImage(double, double, Wt::WPainter::Image const&,
> double,
> > double, double, double)
> > Wt::WPainterPath::addEllipse(Wt::WRectF const&)
> > Wt::WRectF::WRectF(Wt::WPointF const&, Wt::WPointF const&)
> > Wt::WSlider::setRange(int, int)
> > Wt::WTextEdit::setStyleSheet(std::basic_string<char,
> std::char_traits<char>,
> > std::allocator<char> > const&)
> > Wt::WTextEdit::setExtraPlugins(std::basic_string<char,
> > std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)
> > Wt::WTextEdit::setToolBar(int, std::basic_string<char,
> > std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)
>
> I have fixed all these (in CVS).

Ok, great.


>
>
> Looking forward to more Ruby on Steroids!

Yes and me too - I'm looking forward to see how well it works out..

-- Richard
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