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Re: Java Mania: An Interview With Richard Dale
by Roberto Alsina on Tuesday 27/Feb/2001, @15:59

Way too cool!

Congratulations Richard! I knew that week I once spent on QtC would be useful somehow even if only as inspiration to a much better idea :-)

Actually, if you think about it, this work you did is most of the work to bind ANY language to Qt and KDE.

Once the C binding is good, any language can bind to it easily.

And if your language supports binding to C++, then you can do a direct one.

Come on Pascal/Ruby/Sather guys, have fun! :-)

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Re: bindings to other languages ...
by bPoterie on Wednesday 28/Feb/2001, @03:45

Well, with Kylix on the very verge of actual distribution, that sounds pretty interesting ... because Linux will get an awfull large number of new programmers anxious to port their code and relate to the new environment

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Re: Java Mania: An Interview With Richard Dale
by Richard Dale on Thursday 01/Mar/2001, @02:24

Thanks Roberto - your QtC stuff was the start point - it would have been very difficult to get going without it,as I didn't know anything about Qt programming at first.

-- Richard

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Re: Java Mania: An Interview With Richard Dale
by Roberto Alsina on Thursday 01/Mar/2001, @09:10

Well, QtC was described by someone whose coding I respect as "an incredibly ugly abortion that should never have happened", so I hope you didn't take the code in it too seriously ;-)

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Re: Java Mania: An Interview With Richard Dale
by Richard Dale on Friday 02/Mar/2001, @07:49

Well - you could use similar language to describe my perl! As long as the api you generate is pretty, perhaps it doesn't matter if the 'scaffolding' is a bit scruffy.

-- Richard

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Re: Java Mania: An Interview With Richard Dale
by dimator on Thursday 01/Mar/2001, @12:14

So as I understand it, QtC is completely dead now? The last checkin, according to cvsweb, was 3 years ago... so, i doubt it will even build?

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Re: Java Mania: An Interview With Richard Dale
by Roberto Alsina on Thursday 01/Mar/2001, @12:32

QtC pretty much was born dead :-)

I am pretty sure that the current sources could almost build, as soon as you take care of all the QString strangeness (it's Qt 1.33 code ;-)

I really wanted to keep it up to date, but noone seemed to actually want to CODE using it (I got perhaps 3 mails in 3 years :-)

So, I let it rot as a proof of concept.

Then came Richard, and the rest is history, since a good QtC (the name is cool, please keep it ;-) should be now easier than ever.

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Re: Java Mania: An Interview With Richard Dale
by Richard Dale on Friday 02/Mar/2001, @08:35

But 'Son of QtC' is going well, but isn't quite ready for the KDE cvs yet. I can send a version of C bindings for Qt 2.2 as a 800k email attachment if anyone is interested. I'll wait to see how much bug fixing etc needs to be done with the Java, then if that seems stable, I'll start on the C/Objective-C again.

-- Richard

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