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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: State of scripting in KDE
From:       Harri Porten <porten () tu-harburg ! de>
Date:       1999-08-18 9:35:22
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"John R. Zedlewski" wrote:
> 
> I was looking through the "KDEBindings" CVS, when I noticed that virtually
> everything in it seems to date to 1998 or earlier.  I downloaded perl-qt, but
> it only supports Qt 1.21 or so.

I thought that there were recent versions than this. Check the author's
homepage. I'm not saying that he's up to date with Qt 2.0, though. Might
also be that I confuse them with the Python bindings.

> So it got me wondering, what is the state of
> scripting in KDE?  I've seen KScript, but the sample scripts don't really show
> anything much more complicated than some basic math (not that I'm putting
> KScript down, I just don't really know it yet).  So, what, if any, scripting
> languages support KDE?  If one or more languages could be made to support both
> easy GUI-creation and KOM, it would be a HUGE plus for the project.  Especially
> KOM support, because it would instantly make the whole KDE project completely
> scriptable.

It would be surely a huge plus. Someone needs to work on this, though.
KScript is still very young and already offers quite some functionality.
Do you want to help out extending it ?

> KScript looks like it was designed for this goal (very IDL-like
> syntax), but I've yet to see a KScript example that uses CORBA.  Does that have
> something to do with this mysterious "ksidl" binary sitting in my KDE2
> directory?

I think so. Yes. AFAIK KScript was already integrated into kspread so it
should already work *somehow*.

Harri.

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