[Kde-bindings] Trying to understand Smoke

Sohail Somani sohail at taggedtype.net
Wed Jun 18 17:10:46 UTC 2008


Richard Dale wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 June 2008 17:23:56 Sohail Somani wrote:
>> I've looked at QtRuby and PerlQt. I have a vague idea of what happens:
>>
>>   * Generate *.cpp files
>>   * ???
>>   * Use in $LANG
>>
>> As far as I can tell, the *.cpp files that are generated by smoke are
>> language independent, which is nice. My question is: is there a way to
>> enumerate all the information in the generated code? If I could figure
>> this out, the Rest Is Easy (TM).
> Yes, there is a command line tool 'rbqtapi' that allows you to introspect what 
> is in the smoke lib. So you can either use that tool or use the method calls 
> it makes to do a custom version of a smoke lib introspector. However, the 
> version in the svn isn't quite working - you can give it a class to list its 
> methods, but searching on a regular expression doesn't work.

Great. Thanks for this info and the quick response (I sent in the 
morning hoping to have a response by the time I was ready to look at it 
again!)




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