Don’t worry, don’t get quickly offended :) Most of the type of “errors" I got are in one of the following categories:
1) A class defines a method not compatible with one in the interface or base class. For example removeListener suddenly returns Element to allow for chaining instead of a boolean. I guess this is a balance between usability and OO correctness that sometimes doesn’t map well on TypeScript. 2) There are a lot of method parameters not defined optional while in fact they are. For example the icon parameter in many of the constructors. The declaration file still compiles well, but when I compile a project using these constructors I get many warnings about missing parameters. 3) Not always are the types mentioned in the doc fully qualified. Especially when a class name appears multiple times in different packages, this can be difficult to guess (at least for the parser). And then there are some smaller things, like I have seen a return type being a package name instead of a class or interface. I’ll see if I can make an overview of the different findings. BTW I did put the parser on Github right now for those who want to see it: https://github.com/jbaron/qx-parser — Peter On 07 Jul 2014, at 22:12, thron7 <thr...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Wow, interesting. > > Don't be offended when you don't get much feedback from core devs, > they're usually just too busy. The API issues are immediately > interesting, so post some examples for them when you find time, and > maybe open an issue with qooxdoo's bug tracker. > > Post your project progress and your experiences once in a while. > > T. > > > On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 7:09 PM, Peter Dekkers <pe...@jbaron.com> wrote: >> In my search for a UI framework that would allow me to build a desktop like >> application, Qooxdoo seemed one of the most promising ones. However since my >> project (CATS, an IDE for TypeScript)) is written in TypeScript, I first >> wanted to make sure it could effectively be used from TypeScript. >> >> So I generated a declaration file for the Qooxdoo ui widgets and its >> dependencies (I did find one already on github but that was outdated and >> didn’t provide me the details I needed). I also tried to remove the >> dependencies on the generate tooling by including all the widgets already in >> the project. So you can use this project without having to install the >> Qooxdoo library or tooling. >> >> Still a lot of things can be improved and I want to also evaluate a few >> things. But I already put this version on Github in case anyone wants to >> give it a try or find it remotely useful (there is a small demo app included >> that shows how it can be used). >> >> You can find it at: https://github.com/jbaron/qx-typed >> >> >> Things still to be done: >> >> 1) Infer types based on the "var pattern” used by Qooxdoo. A lot of methods >> refer to a property that is typed. However the method itself is untyped >> (var) and right now mapped to any >> 2) Include typed events since TypeScript does support this nicely. >> 3) Have some more test code, so I can easily see what still has to be >> manually changed to the qooxdoo.d.ts file for the test code to be compiled >> correctly. For example Qooxdoo doesn’t always correctly flag parameters as >> optional (or I am making some mistakes ;) >> >> BTW also planning to put the generator on github that I used to generate >> this qooxdoo.d.ts file after I cleaned up some of the code. However also >> found out that there are many cases where the documentation (API) is not >> 100% correct and some small manual changes are required to make regular code >> pass TypeScript checks. 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