[Kde-games-devel] I want to help

[Dmitry Suzdalev]

On Wednesday 25 October 2006 21:14, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> You just volunteered to port Kolf from QCanvas to QGraphicsView ;-) (AFAIK
> noone is doing it and it would be good to do it)
>
> Do not hesitate to ask about any problem you have in the porting process.
>
> And remember to port all that QPoint and such to QPointF.
By the way, I tried to port kolf to QGV and I found this to be not very 
simple. Mostly because such porting will involve not-very-trivial code 
reorganisation. But if you, Paul, really like kolf and will enjoy working on 
it, that won't be a problem for you ;).

I remember that the major issue was that many of kolf's QCanvasItem subclasses 
reimplement QCanvasItem::move() function which was virtual in Qt3.
In Qt4 it is replaced by QGraphicsView::setPos() which is not virtual and 
hence can't be safely reimplemented in subclasses. And this introduces 
drawbacks that need some redesign desicion.

I stopped at this part :-).

So, Paul, If you really decide to help to port Kolf, take this into account 
while studying classes and codebase, maybe this will help you to find 
solution.

If you find any difficulties or misunderstand something ask here or on 
#kdegames at freenode and we all will do our best to help you.

Welcome abroad! :-)

Cheers,
Dmitry.