[Kde-finance-apps] help on a new application

[Alvaro Soliverez]

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Brian Cappello <briancappello at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Alvaro Soliverez <asoliverez at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Brian Cappello <briancappello at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> For charts, in KMyMoney we are using kdchart, a GPL library developed
>> by KDAB, and used by KOffice too.
>> So far, it seems to fit our needs and the support has been responsive
>> whenever we have found problems.
>> I think you might find that easier to use, and it is definitively easy
>> to get started with. The kreportchartview class in KMyMoney has a
>> working example of that.
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> Hmm, I'll have to check that out. When I started writing the chart code I
> certainly wasn't aware of what I was getting myself into, so reuse would
> definitely be favorable to re-inventing the wheel...
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> As for Alkimia, is there any code yet? I guess what I'm asking is what are
> my first steps? If it would be helpful I can write out some requirements
> brainstormings wrt to what I've learned so far with regards to
> retrieving/storing/serving stock data. Also, if anybody off-hand knows of
> any good example library/dbus code to look at that twould be sweet...
> otherwise I could always not be lazy and just use Google... :)
>

There is no code yet.
Here are some KDE DBus tutorials:
http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/#D-Bus
You should also get acquainted with cmake, and SVN for the source code
repository.

As for the libs, most of it will be Qt or KDE libs.