From kde-devel  Wed Aug 18 11:29:02 1999
From: weis <weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 11:29:02 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: State of scripting in KDE
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Hi,

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, 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.  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.  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?
> Thanks,
> --JRZ

Yes. I got KScript to run a script on a remote KSpread. But currently
I have time for nothing. I hope that this may change in about 5 weeks.

KScript has basic support for Qt built in. Signals, slots etc. and
it could connect KOM signals with Qt signals and so on. It just needs
doing ...

Bye
Torben

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