Re: frontend to gnu compiler

[Arthur Griffith <arthur belugalake com>]

KDE has created a special pre-processor that reads special keywords and macros
in a C++ class definition and produces code that handles callbacks. The input
is a header file and the output is a new C++ source file. A callback function is
called a 'slot', and there is a KDE mechanism for using a 'signal' to execute
the 'slot'. All of this is done with automatically generated code because it is
exactly the same every time.

There's a bit more to it, but that is the general idea. It's a little odd, but
it works quite well.


On Thu, 23 Mar 2000,
Havoc Pennington wrote: > "cd bates" <cd.bates@virginnet.co.uk> writes: > > Is
there a gtk+ frontend to the gnu compiler similar to KDE's? I > > know of a
number of frontends already but most look only slightly > > better than if
they'd been developed with the curses library and > > don't really fit with the
other GNOME programs. > > 
> 
> What the heck does a GUI compiler frontend do?
> 
> Havoc
> 
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