Qt bindings for D

[w0rp]

On Sunday, 13 October 2013 at 18:12:00 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 10/13/13, Christian Manning <cmanning999 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Perhaps KDE's SMOKE?
>> http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Languages/Smoke
>
> Someone is already working on this:
> https://github.com/w0rp/dqt

I just saw this thread, and I guess the first thing I felt was 
guilt. I actually got to a pretty interesting stage in this 
project I think, and I do intend to continue working on it. It's 
just that as I was getting to a really cool part where I could 
start to build the bindings proper, life took over and I've been 
far too busy with other things these past few weeks. So, 
unfortunately I haven't had the time to work on it recently. I 
will come back to the project, but it might not be until early 
November when I'll have to the time to pick it up again.

If anyone else wants to take a look at what I did or ask me any 
questions about it, feel free. I pretty much cobbled together 
some code for using Qt through SMOKE in D. SMOKE is pretty much a 
C++ library for creating language bindings for other C++ 
libraries. After spening some time talking to people in the 
#kde-bindings channel and tinkering, I basically matched the 
SMOKE data alignment and wrote a few functions for pulling out 
and calling function pointers in D. (With just a little bit of 
help from a tiny C++ library I wrote, as I couldn't be sure about 
calling C++ function pointers through D working well, among a 
couple of other things.)

I was planning on spending a lot of time thinking about the best 
way I could imagine of putting all of this stuff together, 
providing bindings for the interesting parts of Qt 4.8 (for now), 
and then making a post here announcing the whole thing more 
officially. I suppose this post has kind of pre-empted that.