Re: [Chicken-users] Qt egg - understanding it

[Martin DeMello]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Felix
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Parsing the headerfiles is not that easy - there is a lot of magic
> in there and complex macros. You also would end up with a huge pile
> of wrapper code. There appear to be ways to invoke object-methods
> dynamically, though. But as I said repeatedly: I need some time
> to look into it.

Another approach would be to try to bind to smoke - there are Ruby and
C# bindings to act as an example, though when I asked Andrei about it
he said smoke was complex and poorly documented. I'm coming around to
his pov, that adding widgets in the order that people feel the need
for them would get us more bang for the buck.

Also, as others have noted, I would love to help with the Qt egg; I
just don't know enough about Qt or FFI bindings to C++. I can happily
contribute gruntwork once someone else has pointed the way, though :)

As a personal priority, I'd like to have bindings for keystroke
events, QListWidgetItem and the whole QGraphicsView/QGraphicsScene
framework (the latter might be more of a pipe dream at this point :))
I tried looking at the development egg, but couldn't figure out how to
add a new widget type, or whether I could just manipulate it as a
QWidget.

martin