Qt

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Been toying qith QTRuby and Korundum (QT3/KDE3 bindings for Ruby).

So far I think I rather like it hehe.

Got QTRuby installed fine, Korundums being a bit picky by libtool way. Hope to have a PBI with both in it by next week.

Some likes I need to bookmark in my master-bookmarks-file and want to post on PC-BSD forums.

Terry@Dixie$ rf ~/tmp/notes 5:20
–with-qt-dir=DIR where the root of Qt is installed
–with-qt-includes=DIR where the Qt includes are.
–with-qt-libraries=DIR where the Qt library is installed.
–with-smoke[=qt|kde] Smoke: build Smoke for qt+kde or qt only [default:qt]
–without-gl disable 3D GL modes

configured as:
./configure –prefix=/Programs/QT-KDE-Ruby-Runtime1.0 –with-qt-dir=/usr/X11R6/include –with-qt-includes=/usr/X11R6/include –with-qt-libraries=/usr/X11R6/lib/

http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/ruby/tutorial/tutorial.html

http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/ruby/tutorial2/tutorial2.html

http://www.arachnoid.com/ruby/RubyGUIProject/index.html

http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/ruby/kde3tutorial/index.html

arning: you chose to install this package in /Programs/QT-KDE-Ruby-Runtime1.0,
but KDE was found in /usr/local.
For this to work, you will need to tell KDE about the new prefix, by ensuring
that KDEDIRS contains it, e.g. export KDEDIRS=/Programs/QT-KDE-Ruby-Runtime1.0:/usr/local
Then restart KDE.

http://doc.trolltech.com/3.3/how-to-learn-qt.html

Terry@Dixie$ 5:20

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I’m very tempted to try and put Python + QT to work. A good reference should be able to deal with the diffrences between the C Standard library and what Python offers. I know KPorts is available as a crazy PBI for PC-BSD to give people a gui frontend for ports/packages but. While it gets the job done it’s too darn crashy !

If I could manage to do it (would be learning my first toolkit), a frontend thats got full support for portupgrade and portaduit, strong searching and is reliable + configurable is nice. Functionality, Ease of Use, something thats easy for a newbie but powerful enough to be a professionals tool. Maybe add support for pkgsrc or emerge and stuff in the future. I dunno if I could with how much I know about programming now but there’s always the future.

If I did it I’d want to try and keep things tidy, like so:

Implement code to manage ports

Create a graphical interface using QT

Trim things to allow a great deal of seperation between functional code and user interaction so that it’d be possible to have diffrent GUI’s but not have to rewrite all of or edit most of the code that actually does the job.