As long as your having fun yourself, sounds like a good idea. If you manage a minimum viable product like example code, wider interest may arise. Good luck. cheers -ben
On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 4:00 AM, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is a way to make this into a small task > > One of my experiments of testing my Pharo to Python bridge (What I have > named project "Atlas") was to build a QT hello world example. It created a > problem because I was using python threads that QT does not like (it offers > its own kind of threads) but after changing the code to use no threads, it > worked. > > My bridge is not like UFFI where anything has to be wrapped because unlike > C , Python is a dynamic language so there is no need for wrappers because > Atlas allows dynamic execution of code. But of course there is the issues > of data types and how they can be mapped to Pharo and the fact that PyQT > free version is GPL and commercial is 500 dollars which sits of course on > top of the commercial version of QT. So at the time I decided to not pursue > it. > > I will give it a try and see how far it can goes, at worst I may offer a > partial solution to using QT with Pharo. Then someone else can take it from > there if there is genuine interest and expand it to more features. > > On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 12:01 AM Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.s...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi dimitris >> >> We would love to have that. We could have a Spec binding and build >> automatically applications in QT for people willing. >> Esteban always wanted to have a Cocoa binding used the same way. >> But this is large task >> >> Stef >> >> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 2:44 PM, Hilaire <hila...@drgeo.eu> wrote: >> >>> A must for any serious dekstop application with Pharo, but it is a hudge >>> task >>> >>> >>> Le 29/05/2017 à 14:35, Dimitris Chloupis a écrit : >>> > Is there an interest for working with QT from Pharo ? I make no >>> > promises just something I was interested in trying. >>> >>> -- >>> Dr. Geo >>> http://drgeo.eu >>> >>> >>> >>> >>
