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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Newbie developer question
From:       ian reinhart geiser <geiseri () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2002-06-28 17:38:35
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On Friday 28 June 2002 12:46 pm, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Friday 28 June 2002 08:00 am, Bob Moore wrote:
> > What I would *really* like to do, however, is program
> > in a language I already know.  I tried to do a little
> > bit of C++ development in the past, but the language
> > never really made sense to me.  I've done a decent
> > amount of C coding, as well as PHP, Perl, and some
> > Java, and those languages seem much more intuitive to
> > me than does C++.  Unfortuantely, all KDE/Qt tutorials
> > I see are based on C++.
>
> It should be possible to use Java but I don't know of any tutorials about
> it, without that it might be a bit difficult to get started.

I have a start of a demo in java, but I kinda stalled on it when my 
kdebindings broke. I have no clue on it because I have not had time to even 
look at it as my time has been very tight for the last few weeks.  Currently 
all the demo does is opens a window and has a few buttons and a text input 
box. I will tell you that Qt java blows the doors off of swing.  I have been 
very tempted to try a win32 build of it just to have a usable UI in java 
there. 

Basicly from what I have found is 75% of the java stuff is VERY strait 
forward, and in most cases easier than C++.  Signals and slots are a little 
funky still, and there are quite a few gray areas for me on doing stuff with 
kparts.

The python KDE stuff seems like it is really gaining steam too.  It looks like 
if things progress at the current rate by 3.1 we will be able to have kparts 
and kickerapplets written in python too.  I have seen word on the list too 
that the guys are trying to wrap libkdegame too. 

I think I should have the java howto done by .3.1 though, also I think gideon 
is suppose to have extensive Java and Python support for Qt/KDE.

- -ian reinhart geiser
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