[Kde-bindings] KDE/kdebindings/csharp/ktexteditor

[Arno Rehn]

On Friday 25 July 2008 19:24:44 Richard Dale wrote:
> SVN commit 837777 by rdale:
>
> * Add a port of the KWrite shell to C#
Heh, cool :)

> * There are some problems to be solved:
> 	* Accessing some functionality requires qobject_cast<>'s
I added a C# one which looks and behaves the same way:
T qobject_cast<T>(QObject obj)

> 	* How should mono KDE apps be installed? Should they be installed into
> 	  the bin dir, or they should they be started from a C++ shell like Ruby
> 	  KDE apps?
I think we should have a shell script together with each application which 
will simply call "mono <path/to/main.exe> $@". This will need to be configured 
by cmake to point to the correct path. the mono exe itself should be put 
together with all the libraries of the application in a seperate directory in 
lib/.
So we have e.g. /usr/bin/foo, /usr/lib/foo/foo.exe and /usr/lib/foo/bar.dll
As far as I know this is how all mono/.NET applications are installed.

> 	* Couldn't see how to convert this call:
> 		QTextStream input(stdin, QIODevice::ReadOnly);
Either we have to map FILE* to IntPtr in kalyptus and create calls for stdin, 
stdout and stderr in smoke and C# or we create wrapper classes around 
QIODevice and System.IO.Stream so you can use an System.IO.Stream instead of a 
QIODevice and vice-versa. I'd prefer the latter one - it improves 
interopability between Qyoto and C# and keeps the file handle stuff out of the 
managed world (which isn't used anywhere in the .NET framework, afaik, aside 
from some convenience/compatibility methods)

> 	* The KUrl.List class needs more work to be usuable with drag and drop
Yes, there seem to be some bugs in kalyptus regarding which methods should be 
converted and which not.

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Arno Rehn
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