[kde-edu]: Re: Qalculate backend for Cantor - Help system

[Alexander Rieder]

On Tuesday 04 January 2011 15:28:25 Matteo Agostinelli wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am currently working on the Qalculate backend for Cantor, trying to get it
> in shape for inclusion in the next release. I have started with the
> existing code in playground (thanks to Millian Wolff) and you can check the
> progress in svn trunk.
> 
> I have already committed some work, basically introducing new options and
> the corresponding configuration dialog.
> 
> For the moment I have one question (I guess more will follow :). How do I
> get the Help system to work? If I understood the code correctly, I think I
> have to do a
> 
> setResult(new Cantor::HelpResult(text))
> 
> in the QalculateExpression class somewhere. Right now I am trying to put it
> in the evaluate() method and call it when "help" is detected in the
> command, but nothing seems to happen. What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> Matteo
> 

Hi,
you were doing anything right, it was a bug in the Cantor code.
Should be fixed in trunk with r1211783. Thanks for working on this backend.

regards,
Alexander