From kde-devel  Wed Aug 04 11:52:26 1999
From: weis <weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de>
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 11:52:26 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Another quick CORBA q.
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Hi,

This is impossible. The interface must be described entirely
in IDL.

Unfortunately the IDL generates shitty APIs. If someone has time
we should think about a real language mapping. There might even be
chances to present it to the OMG to show that the current one
sucks entirely.

Bye
Torben


On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Rik Hemsley wrote:

> Thanks to those who answered the previous message (CORBA typedef sequence)
> 
> Next question:
> 
> I want to do something like this:
> 
> interface MyInterface
> {
>   void addObject(in MyObject obj);
>   MyObject object(in string key);
> };
> 
> Is this possible without defining the interface for MyObject ?
> 
> I'd really like to be able to keep my existing code (for MyObject and
> all associated types) rather than having to switch all of it to use STL and
> CORBA types.
> 
> I can't find an idl in mico's demos that does this.
> 
> If I could just pass something like a void * and cast it I'd be happy :)
> 
> TIA
> Rik
> 
> -- 
> KDE - Colour Outside The Lines - http://www.kde.org
> 
>