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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KJSEmbed added to kdenonbeta
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-11-13 23:55:32
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On Tuesday 13 November 2001 11:44 pm, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 November 2001 03:25 pm, Richard Moore wrote:
> > I've just added a new library KJSEmbed to kdenonbeta that makes it easy
> > to embed a KJS interpreter in a KDE app. The lib includes bindings that
> > let scripts access QWidgetFactory (so they can load dialogs/widgets from
> > QtDesigner .ui files), and a binding to the properties of QObjects.
>
> Coolness, *feature request* could you (or someone else) add support for
> scriptable custom KActions, so that you can add your own toolbar-buttons
> that execute some script.

I'm already working on it, but the code isn't quite done yet. :-)
Here's an example of using things from the script point of view I just added 
to the README (shows the example in use):

-- Enter a JS expression and press enter --
kjs> 10+20
30
kjs> print("Hello World!")
Hello World!
undefined
kjs> Math.sin(0)
0
kjs> Math.cos(0)
1
kjs> console
JSConsoleWidget (KJSEmbed::JSConsoleWidget)
kjs> console.childCount()
4
kjs> console.childAt(1)
CmdEdit (QComboBox)
kjs> console.childAt(2)
RunButton (QPushButton)
kjs> console.findChild("RunButton")
RunButton (QPushButton)
kjs> console.findChild("RunButton").text = "Go!"
Go!
kjs> console.caption = "Different Title"
Different Title

The action loading will be an extension of the existing jshookloader class, 
so it shouldn't take long to get it working. I might extend the factory to 
let you make actions from the script itself too (not sure about that though).

>
> Real life test-case:  *)
>
> As a user I want to be able to add a "Close this bugreport" action to
> KMail. E.g. it should reply to a mail and set the to address to
> "<nr>-done@bugs.kde.org", possibly scanning the subject for the bugnumber.
> (Since coolo refuses to replace the "submit@bugs.kde.org" from address)

Nice example!

Rich.

>
> Cheers,
> Waldo

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