[Kde-bindings] smoke usage - how to create new bindings

[Arno Rehn]

On Monday 03 August 2009 17:47:36 Jonathan Yu wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Arno Rehn<arno at arnorehn.de> wrote:
> > On Monday 03 August 2009 17:33:44 Petr Vanek wrote:
> >> hi all,
> >>
> >> I'd like to create a Qt4 bindings for new language and Smoke seems to
> >> be "The Solution" for this task.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately there is no documentation for Smoke. So I studied ruby
> >> (propably the  main stuff) and php (imho better structured) bindings.
> >> There is one more issue - I don't know internals of these languages so
> >> it's very hard to understand what's smoke stuff and what's part of
> >> ruby/php.
> >>
> >> Is there any "minimal" (pseudocode) code to show how Smoke works? What
> >> to implement to do basic marshalling etc.
> >
> > Hi Petr,
> >
> > take a look at http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Languages/Smoke .
> > There's information about what smoke does and a minimal example in C++.
> > It should give you an idea how to use SMOKE. If it's still not clear,
> > feel free to ask :).
>
> I should note that when I first started working with it, that
> description wasn't as thorough as I would have liked. Luckily Chris
> Burel (of the perlqt4 project) wrote something nice which can be used
> as supplemental information:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/perlqt4/wiki/Smoke_API_documentation
>
> (It's on the perlqt4 wiki but not specific to Perl)
Oh, that's cool. I haven't seen this before. We should contact Chris and ask 
him if he/we can also put this on techbase.

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Arno Rehn
arno at arnorehn.de