Hi, On 01.03.2014 10:06, Alexander Mezin wrote: [...] > I have my own idea for project, not listed on ideas page. > I want to write C++ binding/wrapper for XCB. > When I worked on another GSoC project previous year (touchpad > configuration utility for KDE [1]), I had to work with libxcb from C++ > code. > I've noticed that libxcb's interface nicely maps to RAII idiom, but > working with libxcb C API requires a lot of boilerplate code. > I've found some C++ wrappers for libxcb, but it seems that they aren't > actively developed. > > I think that the best way is to use xcb protocol descriptions to > generate C++ wrappers, which will internally use libxcb. > I don't like templates as much as Boost developers do, so I try to > avoid them when possible. > Maybe it would be good to write C++ wrappers for utility libraries also. [...]
I like this idea. The "nicely maps to RAII idiom" made me remember something nice that I saw in kwin's source code. They have a "Wrapper" template which does exactly that: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kde-workspace/repository/revisions/7bacb97404d9a55194da2490d7266b3264d6638c/entry/kwin/xcbutils.h#L50 I know that your proposal goes way beyond this, but I just wanted to mention the API that they came up with. Of course, yours will be much nicer. :-) Good luck and have fun, Uli -- "Why make things difficult, when it is possible to make them cryptic and totally illogical, with just a little bit more effort?" -- A. P. J. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
