[WebKit-devel] KParts::TextExtension

[Urs Wolfer]

On Friday 24 September 2010 21:40:26 David Faure wrote:
> I just committed a KParts::TextExtension, so that kparts plugins
> (babelfish, kttsplugin etc.) or web browsers themselves can get
> information such as: bool hasSelection(), QString selectedText(Format
> format), QString
> completeText(Format format) and signal selectionChanged(),
> in a web-browser-engine independent way.
> 
> The api is below for post-commit review :-)
> Now is a good time to ask for more virtual methods in there.
> 
> The reason I'm posting this here, is to let other kpart authors know about
> it. For instance if katepart provides this extension then babelfish and
> text-to- speech would also work with it (e.g. in konqueror).
> 
> I'll commit http://www.davidfaure.fr/2010/kttsplugin.diff (kdebase) on
> Monday, it leads to a pretty nice cleanup of that code.
> 
> Question: when can I commit extragear/base/konq-plugins/babelfish, i.e.
> when can it depend on kdelibs trunk?

I think using #ifdef's there would be the save way.

> Question for webkit-devel: when can I commit the use of TextExtension to
> extragear/base/kwebkitpart?

As Dawit already told: we try to support the last stable KDE release, so 
please use #ifdef's here as well.

Thanks for looking into this issue!

Bye
urs
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