Language Bindings for the C++ API: Fourth Quarter Report and Post-GSoC Goals

The following classes have been implemented; some methods and functions have not been implemented due to dependencies on unimplemented classes, but the classes below are otherwise complete:

*These don't actually contains any classes, Errors and TypeConstants expose constants; Beep exposes functions; FindDirectory and NodeMonitor expose constants and functions.

The following classes were partially implemented, but had bugs that could not be resolved before the end of GSoC:

Bitmap
FilePanel
ChannelControl
ChannelSlider
ColumnListView
Gradient (and derived classes)
OptionControl
OptionPopUp

The following classes from the original timeline were not implemented:

Dragger
Shelf
Region
PrintJob

My goals for the fourth quarter were:

- Fix bugs reported by users (None reported)
- Add documentation (Done)
- Write additional example programs and enhance existing ones (Done)

The generator and interface language have been documented; the documentation on the classes themselves is still limited.

Post-GSoC goals:
- Add support for keyword-style entry
- Add support for functions as parameters if possible
- Add support for templates as parameters if possible
- Continue to add new bindings
- Fix bugs as they are discovered

I don't know how long it will take me to meet these goals; now that GSoC is over, I won't be able to spend as much time on this project.

The Python extensions have not been tested very well; there are two simple programs that test the basic functionality, and those work. In addition, work on the Perl test programs exposed a number of bugs that were due to mistakes in the definition files, which means that those particular bugs were fixed for Python as well. But there are very likely a large number of Python-specific bugs that will only come to light with more testing.

As always, the files are available via the project page: http://dev.osdrawer.net/projects/perl-haiku-kits/; as requested by jrabbit, the Python extension is also available via PyPI. The Perl extension should be available on CPAN soon; I'm waiting for approval of the namespace from the maintainers.

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