Plugin loader (was: Re: "get hot new stuff" button)

[David Faure]

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On Friday 21 June 2002 09:54, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> On Friday 21 June 2002 08:02, David Faure wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 June 2002 23:56, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> > > By the way, how many different plugin loading frameworks do we have in
> > > KDE?
> >
> > Only one and it's called KLibLoader+KTrader ;)
> 
> I know about them ;-) Of course you can build a plugin loader on top of these 
> classes, but it requires additional code which is similar in all apps using 
> plugins. What I'm missing is something which would it make possible to write 
> plugin loading code like this:
> 
> PluginLoader<SomeClass> loader;
> PluginInfo::List list = loader.availablePlugins();
> SomeClass *plugin = loader.load( list[1] );
> QPtrList<SomeClass> pluginList = loader.loadAll();
> 
> This would hide ugly things like passing around library names or casting 
> factory classes to the right type.

Sorry, I forgot to mention KParts::ComponentFactory, which is exactly what you want.

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