2 month passed since the work on Qt binding started and we got first results now. There are about 130 classes that work now or I better say _should_ work now because it requires a lot of testing. Among them are basic widgets like QLabel, QPushButton and so on. The API is not full and there is methods that have container types or Variants as parameters. Basic layouts work. The whole thing works only on linux for the moment.

For those who doesn't know we are at http://code.google.com/p/qtd/

The main issue is that signals and slots and therefore event-handling in toolkit is not implemented. So it means that it is not really useful right now. But still we decide that it will be better than announce that not, to let people know that some work is going on.

Any help will be appreciated i.e. improving build system, porting tutorials and examples, or if you want help with the binding itself.

Thank you, best regards.
Eldar Insafutdinov

Great to hear about the progress!

As always, nothing speaks to people's hearts like screenshots.  So put some up if you get a chance!

Also eagerly awaiting the report from you guys on what kind of reflection capabilities D would need to support Qt perfectly without MOC.

--bb

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Eldar Insafutdinov <e.insafutdinov@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2 month passed since the work on Qt binding started and we got first results now. There are about 130 classes that work now or I better say _should_ work now because it requires a lot of testing. Among them are basic widgets like QLabel, QPushButton and so on. The API is not full and there is methods that have container types or Variants as parameters. Basic layouts work. The whole thing works only on linux for the moment.
>
> For those who doesn't know we are at http://code.google.com/p/qtd/
>
> The main issue is that signals and slots and therefore event-handling in toolkit is not implemented. So it means that it is not really useful right now. But still we decide that it will be better than announce that not, to let people know that some work is going on.
>
> Any help will be appreciated i.e. improving build system, porting tutorials and examples, or if you want help with the binding itself.
>
> Thank you, best regards.
> Eldar Insafutdinov
>

Bill Baxter Wrote:

> Great to hear about the progress!
> 
> As always, nothing speaks to people's hearts like screenshots.  So put some up if you get a chance!
> 
> Also eagerly awaiting the report from you guys on what kind of reflection capabilities D would need to support Qt perfectly without MOC.
> 
> --bb
> 
> On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Eldar Insafutdinov <e.insafutdinov@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2 month passed since the work on Qt binding started and we got first results now. There are about 130 classes that work now or I better say _should_ work now because it requires a lot of testing. Among them are basic widgets like QLabel, QPushButton and so on. The API is not full and there is methods that have container types or Variants as parameters. Basic layouts work. The whole thing works only on linux for the moment.
> >
> > For those who doesn't know we are at http://code.google.com/p/qtd/
> >
> > The main issue is that signals and slots and therefore event-handling in toolkit is not implemented. So it means that it is not really useful right now. But still we decide that it will be better than announce that not, to let people know that some work is going on.
> >
> > Any help will be appreciated i.e. improving build system, porting tutorials and examples, or if you want help with the binding itself.
> >
> > Thank you, best regards.
> > Eldar Insafutdinov
> >


ok, I will make screenshots tomorrow. And yes we remember about reflection request, Katrina has been busy recently, she will take a look at it as soon as possible.

Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
> 2 month passed since the work on Qt binding started and we got first
> results now.

I think that's awesome news! Quick question - are you using D1, D2, or both for compiling?

Andrei

Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:

> Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
> > 2 month passed since the work on Qt binding started and we got first results now.
> 
> I think that's awesome news! Quick question - are you using D1, D2, or both for compiling?
> 
> Andrei

D1. Although we will probably have to port moc for it(D2 hopefully lets us avoid preprocessor), but nobody who I asked was able to tell me where D2 comes out of beta. And so nobody ever started working on tango-D2 which I use as well as other things which are D1-only at the moment. But of course we are considering D2 in the future.

It's good to hear! Keep up the good work!


Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:

> 2 month passed since the work on Qt binding started and we got first results now. There are about 130 classes that work now or I better say _should_ work now because it requires a lot of testing. Among them are basic widgets like QLabel, QPushButton and so on. The API is not full and there is methods that have container types or Variants as parameters. Basic layouts work. The whole thing works only on linux for the moment.
> 
> For those who doesn't know we are at http://code.google.com/p/qtd/
> 
> The main issue is that signals and slots and therefore event-handling in toolkit is not implemented. So it means that it is not really useful right now. But still we decide that it will be better than announce that not, to let people know that some work is going on.
> 
> Any help will be appreciated i.e. improving build system, porting tutorials and examples, or if you want help with the binding itself.
> 
> Thank you, best regards.
> Eldar Insafutdinov

Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
> The main issue is that signals and slots and therefore event-handling
> in toolkit is not implemented. So it means that it is not really
> useful right now. But still we decide that it will be better than
> announce that not, to let people know that some work is going on.

Awesome. You guys are doing a major contribution to the success of D.

Added some screenshots.

http://code.google.com/p/qtd/wiki/Screenshots

2009/1/29 Eldar Insafutdinov <e.insafutdinov@gmail.com>:
> Added some screenshots.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/qtd/wiki/Screenshots

Way to go!  I can hear motivation levels rising already.

--bb

Walter Bright Wrote:

> Eldar Insafutdinov wrote:
> > The main issue is that signals and slots and therefore event-handling in toolkit is not implemented. So it means that it is not really useful right now. But still we decide that it will be better than announce that not, to let people know that some work is going on.
> 
> Awesome. You guys are doing a major contribution to the success of D.

We hope so. In first place I was doing it for my own purposes, I wonder why it didn't exist before :)