* would recommend writing C++ header files as a starting point tedc * On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Christian Stimming <christ...@cstimming.de>wrote:
> Am Montag, 11. Februar 2013, 10:36:31 schrieb John Ralls: > > > I was just pointing out that if we had to spend a lot of time migrating > > > to Gtk3 we might be better off spending the time migrating to something > > > else. > > > > OK. In fact we've (meaning Geert's) already done 90% of the job. All > that's > > left is fixing the register to draw with Cairo surfaces instead of the > > ancient libgnome stuff. Not an easy job, but much easier than porting > > everything to Qt. > > Very good. > > > > I still wish I had written QOF in C++ instead of C a decade ago. :-( > > > > Me too. But that's not too hard to fix, once I figure out how to get > GObject > > to inherit from a C++ object. The answer is no doubt somewhere in glibmm. > > But it's not quite time for that yet. > > Have a look at the existing cutecash code: In > src/optional/gtkmm/gncmm/Account.hpp there's an gnc::Account, and as you > see > there, the module has a gnc::GncInstance base class that wraps the > QofInstance > "object" that manages the qof parts. This in turn is derived from > Glib::Object > which is the C++ version of a GObject. In my opinion, this wrapping of > GObject and also (while it still exists) QofInstance in the end looks very > well possible and the resulting C++ classes look well enough like a real > C++ > class. > > Disclaimer for all other readers: The C++ part of this discussion is > currently > only an academic one. It has not yet anything to do with the real work > that is > done in the coming months. > > Regards, > > Christian > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
