First off let me start by pointing you to a little image I just created that sort of explains in high level how the qt stuff works. The web address is http://www.codepunk.com/files/qtengine.gif . This does of course require the liblzqt.so be installed to link against since it is a interface between QT at a object level and exports a C interface required by FPC.

As for the KDE stuff I think it would be just a matter of setting up my environment to compile against the kde core and copy the QT Lazarus interface and just call kwidgets instead of the qt ones. I had considered doing this today but did not wish to risk a broken CVS for a directory add.

At the moment I plan on doing QT and KDE at the same time since they are essentially the same thing.

Hello in GTK and QT comming in a moment.

Cliff

Mike are you still planning on doing a fresh meat announcement any time soon.??

I just added the QT interface code so it is now possible to compile hello world using the LCL and QT widgets. So I guess we can claim that QT is at least somewhat functional. I also update the new page with the info. Do you need screenshots of both?

Cliff

Make files for the examples directory are broken. The compiler complains it cant find hkeys.inc this would be because it does not have a pointer to the include directory.

Cliff

codepunk wrote

Mike are you still planning on doing a fresh meat announcement any time soon.??

Yes. I guess we have fleshed out all of the problems with the HowTos by now. I will make the changes to those from all of the reports. I was busy the end of last week dealing with the book stuff so I didn't update them yet. When that is done I will make the announcements. So I would suspect it will be Tuesday or Wednesday. Maybe I can have the bug tracking stuff available by then as well.

I just added the QT interface code so it is now possible to compile hello world using the LCL and QT widgets. So I guess we can claim that QT is at least somewhat functional. I also update the new page with the info.

Great! I was hoping you might have something tangible before I made an announcement. It lends more teeth and interest. How does making it work with Qt relate to KDE. I know that making something GTK doesn't mean it is Gnomeish. We will need to do a Gnome interface in the future as well. Will we need to make a KDE specific interface as well? I don't know that much about coding Qt or KDE. How much of a deal will it be?

Do you need screenshots of both?

Screenshots would be a big plus. If you look at the usage reports you can see that screenshots is one of the most visited pages. People like to visually see what is going on and what can be done.

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As another general question are there any Gnome developers out there that can work on the Gnome interface to the LCL? It really shouldn't be that difficult. Just a matter of modifing the application startup stuff and a few other items.

+ From: codepunk
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+ Make files for the examples directory are broken. The
+ compiler complains it cant find hkeys.inc this would
+ be because it does not have a pointer to the include directory.

Wooops, forgot that one, will be fixed soon.

Marc