[Kde-bindings] How to mix DCOP c++ code with C?

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Quoting Jacques Pelletier <jpelletier at ieee.org>:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to use DCOP in a GTK C environment. Since the DCOP C bindings
> seems to be dead/inactive, I would like to know if it's possible to mix c++
> code (for accessing DCOP) with the C code of the rest of the program.

Why would you want to use DCOP? It's a dead technology, replaced by  
DBUS in KDE4. There is a dbus-glib library:  
http://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus-glib/

With regard to using C++ with C, yes it should be possible. You will  
need to write a C wrapper around the C++ library (a C function to  
access each C++ method -don't forget overloaded methods- you need to  
use) and use extern "C".

The most troublesome part might be the Qt event loop, you may need to  
build a special Qt 3 with glib event loop support. Take a look at  
http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/common_main_loop/ (totally  
unsupported and not carried by any distribution).

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)