Kross, the scripting framework, is one of the pillars new with KDE4. While the project started already a while back in 2004 it enveloped over the time to a rather big codebase. During the KDE4-process one of the main-goals was to decrease the codebase what can be even more difficult then writting new code.

Once in a while we had an interesting pool about the Preferred Scripting Language where the result showed something of a concensus that Python and Ruby are the primary preferred scripting languages (from within those small list of possibilities the pool offered).

Well I got in a few good nights of hacking on KJSEmbed and am getting back up to speed again. Last night I fixed a big problem rich was having in the scribble demo.

I finally got some time to spend on KDE last weekend, so on Sunday I started working on a new binding generator for KJSEmbed on Qt 4. In the KDE 3 version I used Doxygen to generate XML output then processed that with XSLT (using xsltproc) to produce the C++ code for the bindings. Unfortunately this provded to be a bit too inflexible, and difficult for other developers (who weren't familiar with XSLT) to work on. The new code uses KJSEmbed's DOM bindings to process the Doxygen output and seems to be a lot easier to work with - [mX] was making improvements within a few hours of the first commits. This also means we might be able to make the bindings self-hosted in KDE 4 which would be nice.

When I get a bit more time (this weekend hopefully!) I plan to try to get this code pushed a bit further - thanks to [mX] it can already mostly do value types, just objects and scalars to go!

Oh man, these last few weeks have been rough. I got a new toy, but that is an entirely different blog all together. So here is the lowdown on what I got working with KSJEmbed in the last few weeks:

So over the last few weeks I have started work on the new KJSEmbed that will be in KDE 4. In a change of heart that is an entirely different blog all together I have decided that I will push to have KJSEmbed in the core of KDE 4.

I've started looking into porting KJSEmbed to Qt 4. To begin with, I've recreated most of the Q_CLASSINFO demo I posted recently using the Qt 4 equivalents. Listing the slots of an object is even easier than before, as is finding a marker interface:

So i was trying to figure out how to copy songs from my favorite Juk play lists onto my mp3 player most efficiently. So I hit up wheels about Juk's dcop interface. One word "Wow".

Someone a few days ago on IRC asked me about creating kde:KSystemTray apps with KJSEmbed. So I dug into it and found out how cool it really is...