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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KMainWindow Inteface updates
From:       Simon Hausmann <hausmann () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-10-25 17:10:51
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:04:49PM -0400, ian reinhart geiser wrote:
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> On Thursday 25 October 2001 12:52 pm, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > Maybe a smarter way to avoid the ugly API duplication of QWidget for the
> > dcop interface would be to utilize the KDCOPPropertyProxy class in
> > kdecore which can map Qt properties to and from dcop requests. If
> > you compare the list of Qt properties of QWidget with the
> > methods/properties in your interface you'll see a lot of
> > duplication, which can be removed very easy :)
> The KDCOPProcertyProxy class like the KDCOPRef and friends is very nice but 
> also very useless for this type of scripting.  The problem is normal humans 
> cannot demarshal this data.  Unless something cool happend to them this week 
> I think this sort of API duplication is an ugly fact of life...
> 
> Unless you can think of a better way to proxy these functions into plain text?
> I have not read the API docs in a week so things may have changed.

Demarshalling is not the job of a human, it's what the specific dcop
client has to do. If it's for the dcop commandline client then that
one should be improved to give nicer output, IMHO, instead of
working around it by duplicating an API.

(like if a QSize property is to be set then it might intelligently
parse '123,456' to a QSize (after a previous inspection of the
property/method signature) ) .

Simon

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