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

[Cornelius Schumacher]

On Friday 21 June 2002 10:02, David Faure wrote:
> 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.

Doesn't this only work for classes inheriting from QObject?

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Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher.kde.org>