[Kde-java] Re: GCJ (Re: Build system for KDE4)

[Richard Dale]

On Friday 17 June 2005 11:41, Richard Dale wrote:
> > I created a signal/slot equivalent in an open source Java framework since
> > I was so frustrated by the standard way Java does things. 
Does this mean you don't like event listeners?

> > its a best of
> > both worlds solution that probably would be nice to use in the bindings
> > as well.
> > see:
> > http://uic.sf.net/api/20/uic/action/package-summary.html
> >
> > The framework is very mature (been in use for years) and has features
> > like multi-threading queues, action-locking and UI locking (sleepy
> > pointer) for actions running in another thread, and much more.
>
> The slots/signals implementation in QtJava is mature too, and works fine,
> integrating seamlessly with the C++ slots/signals in the Qt and KDE
> classes.
Sorry if I sound a bit rude here, I didn't intend to kill the design 
discussion stone dead. Is there some way of combining the best bits of the 
two approaches?

-- Richard