Review Request 123735: version of QmlObject with a static engine

[Vishesh Handa]

> On May 19, 2015, 3:04 p.m., Vishesh Handa wrote:
> > src/kdeclarative/qmlobjectsharedengine.cpp, line 60
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123735/diff/8/?file=370102#file370102line60>
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> >     I'm probably missing some parts of the picture. Could you please explain why this needs to be static?
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> >     Also, you could just combine the QSharedPointer and the normal pointer.
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> Marco Martin wrote:
>     the whole point is to have a single instance per process...
>     or could be done differently, like with a Q_GLOBAL_STATIC...

So does each applet construct its own `QmlObjectSharedEngine`?

Maybe we can disable this class's constructor and just have a `static QQmlObjectSharedEngine* instance()` method? It'll make the semantics much clearer.


- Vishesh


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On May 18, 2015, 8 p.m., Marco Martin wrote:
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> (Updated May 18, 2015, 8 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks and Plasma.
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> Repository: kdeclarative
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> Description
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> to make easier doing applications like plasma that use a lot of qml to have a single engine make a subclass of QmlObject called QmlObjectSharedEngine that has a single, static QQmlEngine
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> Adds a class called QuickViewSharedEngine that has the same behavior as QmlObjectSharedEngine(using it): static QQmlEngine, separed rootContexts() for each instance.
> This is used by desktopviews and panelviews to share their engine.
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> Unfortunately it may not be possible to get the applet configuration dialogs to use this, since they still need a separed engine in order to have a different controls style (qstyle based) than the stuff in the desktop/panel
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> Diffs
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>   src/kdeclarative/CMakeLists.txt d73bff0 
>   src/kdeclarative/kdeclarative.cpp b3906e2 
>   src/kdeclarative/qmlobject.h f26b67d 
>   src/kdeclarative/qmlobject.cpp c483665 
>   src/kdeclarative/qmlobjectsharedengine.h PRE-CREATION 
>   src/kdeclarative/qmlobjectsharedengine.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   src/quickaddons/CMakeLists.txt 777d07c 
>   src/quickaddons/quickviewsharedengine.h PRE-CREATION 
>   src/quickaddons/quickviewsharedengine.cpp PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/123735/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Marco Martin
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