[Interest] Qt5 - my hopes for when the dust settles...

[Richard Moore]

On 18 August 2012 16:32, Alan Ezust <alan.ezust at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:54 AM, Mark Summerfield <list at qtrac.plus.com> wrote:
>> - One or more official language bindings using the introspection API,
>>   e.g., for Python and for Java.
>
> Qt's Javascript would be much more useful if wrappers for all the Qt
> classes were already in it.
> It is so much more enjoyable to code in PyQt using the Qt classes I
> already know and love from C++. I think it should be possible from
> JavaScript too. Then I could create a little javascript command line
> interpreter and create Qt objects and inspect them like I do now via
> Python.

I've developed one of these in the past (kjsembed) and Kent did the
same with QtScript. Neither have been that heavily used in practice,
though QtScript has had some degree of success as an embedded
scripting language within application.

Rich.