[Kde-games-devel] REKO cardsets for KDE cardgames?

[blachner at gmx.de]

Hello,

I'm interested to add support for the REKO cardset format to the KDE
cardgames. The REKO format is a cardset format used by some card games on Amiga nd
PC. There exist many cardsets in this format. You can find some on
http://go.to/rekonet .

My fist question: Is there a interest for this? If yes, than I have some
more questions below.

I found the kcarddialog class in the KDE CVS. I thought this would be the
right place to add the support for REKO cardsets. But unfortunaly this Dialog
only gives the file and directory names for the cardsets back to the
application and not direct the images. But in the REKO format, all cards are included
in one file, so it is not possible to give a directory back which includes
the card files.

How can formats like the REKO format nevertheless supported by the KDE card
games? I see the following solutions:

1) Rewrite the kcarddialog in this way, that it returns images (QImage?)
instead of filenames. I think this would be the cleanest solution but that means
also that the games which uses the dialog must be rewritten to use the new
dialog. I like to rewrite the kcarddialog in this way, but I don't like to
rewrite the kcardgames by myself.

2) Add a conversion or maybe better called a import function in the
kcarddialog to convert other file formats, in my case the REKO formats, to the PNG
files used by the kde card games.

3) Write a separate convert program to make this mentione in 2. But I think
this is not very comfortable for the user.

What dou you think? What is the best solution?

Regards

Bernd Lachner

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