[Kde-bindings] Qyoto ARGB windows using C++ QApplication hack: crashes

[Richard Dale]

On Sunday 02 March 2008 07:08:12 William Lahti wrote:
> >  Originally I wanted C++ namespaces to be converted to C# partial
> > classes, too, so that the C# API would more resemble the C++ one (e.g.
> > that you could write Kimono.KIO.SomeMethod() )
> > but that lead to the gmcs crash we talked about a
>
> Abusing partial classes in that way is a bad idea. If you think about
> it, you would be forced to refer to any classes in the KIO namespace
> using the KIO identifier like this:
>
> new KIO.SomeKlass ()
That doesn't look too bad to me..

> There would be no way to do:
>
> using Kimono.KIO;
>
> ...because your C# compiler would complain that KIO is a class. Is
> that what you mean by by gmcs crash?
>
> >  few weeks ago. Now there is an extra class for the namespace methods if
> > there are any. So you have to write Kimono.KIO.KIONamespace.SomeMethod()
> > if you want to access a method that's in the original C++ KIO namespace.
> > This 'new' naming scheme is not applied to the Qt classes to keep the old
> > API and old code working
>
> I think the Qyoto.Qt class works quite well for Qt's purposes...
> unfortunately such a setup doesnt apply for KDE considering it's
> namespaces. I'm not a fan of the "Namespace" suffix as it is big and
> unwieldy.... maybe Kimono.KIO.KIOGlobal instead? It would at least
> shave 3 letters off..
Or Kimono.KIO.Global? The best equivalent of Qyoto.Qt would be Kimono.KDE I 
would have thought.

-- Richard