Qt bindings for D

[Abdulhaq]

On Sunday, 13 October 2013 at 20:33:41 UTC, w0rp wrote:
> 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
>
> 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.

Because Qt is so large, the binding needs to be autogenerated 
from a representation of the API. Have you done anything / 
thought about how you would do that? It looks like SMOKE already 
has a representation of the API somewhere.

Also, does SMOKE do anything for you in terms of signals and 
slots, and QVariants?