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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdelibs/kwallet/client
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-12-18 16:53:33
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On Thursday 18 December 2003 09:34, Christian Loose wrote:
> > > Those mistakes make me wonder why noone seems to use
> > > #define SomeIDString "important"
> > > or
> > > static const char const* SomeIDString = "Important";
> > >
> > > Is there any reason for this?
> >
> > or even better why not have dcopidl2cpp itself create these .h's
> >
> > Alex
>
> It actually already does something similar. You can let dcopidl2cpp create
> a DCOPStub. Then you have a class that does all the ugly stuff of calling a
> DCOP method. So instead of writing
>
> DCOPRef("kded", "kwalletd").call("folderDoesNotExist", wallet, folder);
>
> you do
>
> Backend_stub("kded", "kwalletd").folderDoesNotExist(wallet, folder);
>
> and the compiler checks for you if you have a typo.

  Which still leaves two typos that it doesn't catch.   Also I didn't mention 
it, but in this case we also have a circular dependency since kwalletd uses 
the kwallet library, and kwallet library calls kded.

-- 
George Staikos
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