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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KJSEmbed and Kicker
From:       Ian Reinhart Geiser <geiseri () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2003-11-18 19:16:55
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On Tuesday 18 November 2003 01:54 pm, Jason Keirstead wrote:
> On November 18, 2003 10:28 am, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 	If you are interested in programming KDE applications with something
> > other than C++.  Have a look at KJSEmbed.  Its starting to get stable
> > enough that we can build KDE components with it.  As an example we have
> > built a kicker applet that can be extended in pure ECMAScript. For more
> > details see: http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/view/240. Note that this
> > is a big thing because these same techniques can be used to build
> > KOffice, KDevelop, and Konqueror plugins in pure ECMAScript.
>
> This could be a good replacement for the perl scripting plugin I had in
> progress for Kopete ( the HORRIBLE perl scripting plugin I should say ).
>
> Although the thrid party support for perl scripts via CPAN is nice, the
> ability to use all of Qt and kdelibs via your scripts pretty much negates
> the need for most of that.
>
> I'll definitly look into this, from what i see form the tutorials it's
> really impressive.
Actually using this applet, im refactoring how we access the KJS part, this 
should get infinitely simpler.  Basicly:
new your JS Engine
jsengine->publish(your QObjects here);
jsengine->execute(set your code here);

and go...

to acces the members im cleaning up to look something like:
KJS::Value value = jsengine->call("functionName", args, jsobjectContext);

This should eliminate about 75% of the code when interacting with the script.  
KJSEmbed so far is one of the most powerful embedded script engines I have 
seen.  I think it warrants some review by apps that wish to have their apps 
extended by a lightweight script language.

Cheers
	-ian reinhart geiser


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