[Kde-bindings] Qyoto help

[Arno Rehn]

(Replying to the mailing list again, so others can keep track of the thread)

On Wednesday 08 September 2010 19:49:29 you wrote:
> Thanks. I will check these tasks with more time and send my experiences for
> you.
> 
> PS: Does uics utility need to be written in C++? How about rewrite uics in
> C#? It can be done with .NET 2 (XML old style reading) or .NET 3 (LINQ to
> XML).
No, it doesn't need to be written in C++ - you can of course re-implement it 
in C#.
However, the C++ code already has all the logic for generating code from the 
XML file - only the syntax needs to be changed.
If you want to do it completely in C#, you have to be careful to always be 
compatible and implement every feature the C++ version has.
Personally, I'd modify uic - but that's your choice of course. If you want to 
do it in C#, go ahead :)


> 2010/9/8 Arno Rehn <arno at arnorehn.de>
> 
> > On Wednesday 08 September 2010 14:21:03 Timóteo Ramos wrote:
> > > Since 1 month before I read a topic from Mono Brasil talking about KDE
> > > Bindings, something like help request for PHPQt and Qyoto.
> > > 
> > > How can I help you? I'm interested to help Qyoto bindings. My first
> > > impressions with Qyoto are a little issue with uics, that threats the
> > 
> > first
> > 
> > > line (<?xml version="1.0"...) as a common tag and throws an error like
> > > "invalid Qt Designer version", I was forced to remove this line from
> > > XML and the uics read my XML correctly. In general, this binding is
> > > very
> > 
> > nice,
> > 
> > > I want to help.
> > 
> > Great! :) We really do need help for the bindings.
> > There are a few things to do:
> > 1. Fix uics. It's probably best to start completely anew with the
> > original uic
> > since there have been quite some changes, code-wise. The task would be to
> > make
> > uic output C# code, instead of C++ code.
> > 
> > 2. Finishing touches to assemblygen and merging with kdebindings trunk.
> > Assemblygen is a tool that I've started on gitorious [0] which generates
> > a Qyoto-based .NET assembly from a SMOKE library. It's nearly finished
> > and just
> > needs more rules for the various libraries. It can then be merged into
> > kdebindings trunk. This should probably be done after the move to git -
> > it's
> > easier then.
> > 
> > 3. Merge the changes from assemblygen/Qyoto into qyoto trunk. I've done
> > some
> > changes to the Qyoto version that assemblygen builds upon. They make
> > marshalling of primitive types much easier. These changes need to be
> > merged before or together with assemblygen itself.
> > 
> > Task 1 is probably easiest, the other two require some insight into how
> > Qyoto
> > actually works. If you want to get started, fixing uics is probably a
> > good first job. :)
> > 
> > [0] http://gitorious.org/assemblygen/assemblygen
> > 
> > --
> > Arno Rehn
> > arno at arnorehn.de

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