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Perl bindings
by KAP on Saturday 16/Mar/2002, @17:50

It's great that there are news on the language binding front. But, when will we ever see new Perl bindings for Qt/KDE? There are lots of skilled Perl programmers out there, and I'm sure they could benefit the KDE community to no end if there were bindings available.

And, no the Qt bindings on CPAN doesn't seem to work :-( Could this be a conspiracy to force Perl people to switch to Python!!!! :-)

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Re: Perl bindings
by Richard Dale on Sunday 17/Mar/2002, @03:17

"But, when will we ever see new Perl bindings for Qt/KDE?"

Yes, Germain Gerand, TJ Mather and myself are working on Perl bindings for Qt 3/KDE 3, and they should be ready for KDE 3.1.

The bindings are generated from 'Perl Interface Generator' .pig files that used to be prepared by hand. We've added a .pig file generation option to the kalyptus bindings generator to autogenerate them. Germain has regenerated the bindings for Qt 2.2.x and KDE 2.2.2, and pretty well got that working in TJ's cvs.

But the big problem with Qt 3 is that the bindings assume the moc works the way it did for Qt 2. The was a type in Qt 1.x/2.x called 'QMember' which was a pointer to a function for the target slot to be called. In Qt 3 the moc has been changed so it uses an integer offset into the slot table as 'QMember' to invoke a slot. So the slot/signal handling needs to be redone (and the code is quite tricky to follow).

-- Richard

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Re: Perl bindings
by Ricardo Pacheco on Tuesday 16/Jul/2002, @14:59

Is there a link where you post the information regarding the progress of your development?

Thanks.

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Re: Perl bindings
by Danny on Sunday 17/Mar/2002, @06:15

"Could this be a conspiracy to force Perl people to switch to Python!!!! :-)"

THAT would be a good conspiracy theory for a change *ducks away from flamethrowers and runs home* :-)

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Re: Perl bindings
by Carbon on Monday 18/Mar/2002, @10:23

Don't make me bring out my Swiss Army Chainsaw! :-)

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Re: Perl bindings
by Germain on Wednesday 20/Mar/2002, @01:20

Yes, there is still plenty of work, but things are moving...

Here is a little screenshot with only PerlQt apps (running Qt-2.3.1).
Some more skilled Perl/C/XS programmers would be quite welcome though...

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Re: Perl bindings
by Germain on Wednesday 20/Mar/2002, @01:25

uh oh... seems the attachment thingy didn't work...

http://www.phoenix-library.org/germain/shots/PerlQt-2.3.1.png

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