Beyond 2.6 (was:Re: Gnucash 2.5/6)

[Ted Creedon]

* would recommend writing C++ header files as a starting point

tedc
*
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:21 PM, Christian Stimming
<christian at 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
>
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