Re: [q-lang-users] Re: Optimizations and tweaks

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Tim Haynes wrote:
> Yeah, I'll bear it in mind. Actually, I was rather hoping to run it against
> GTK.. :)

Well, while SWIG-Q seems to work pretty well now, and I've written my 
first Qt hello world program in Q, my first experiments with wrapping 
the entire Qt and GTK libraries have been rather sobering. :(

The problem is not with SWIG-Q, but with SWIG itself. Neither the GTK 
nor the Qt headers are SWIG-friendly at all, so I'd have to manually 
extract all relevant declarations from that gazillion of header files. 
While this is already a lot better than writing wrapper modules by hand, 
it's still a big amount of work. And I haven't been able to find 
ready-made SWIG interfaces for GTK and Qt on the web either.

Maybe I should just release the SWIG-enabled Q version as it is now 
(it's already in cvs, I just need to build/test it on Windows and I plan 
to do that tonight), and sit back and see what you and others can do 
with it. ;-)

> Meanwhile, I'm working on the core algorithms for the RSS-reader... the
> integration with libxml2 is coming into its own :)

Feedback on that module is appreciated, of course. Also, I'm awaiting 
some nifty new Q-CGI examples to be included in a future Q release ... :)

Albert

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