[Kde-imaging] Selecting images for plugins

[Renchi Raju]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:

> On Monday 28 June 2004 17:48, Renchi Raju wrote:
> | On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> | > What I want now is:
> | > - All dialog based plugins use a libkipi widget (KIPI::AlbumSelector) to
> | >   select albums.
> | > - All dialog less read-only plugins use currentSelection() or
> | > currentScope(). - All dialog less plugins which modifies images use
> | > currentSelection() only.
> |
> | sounds perfect. (still not hot about currentScope, though)
> Well current scope is what makes the plugin integrate smoothly into both your
> and my application.
>
> default impl could be your way, fine by me:
>
> virtual ImageCollection Interface::currentScope() {
>   return currentSelection();
> }
>
> virtual ImageCollection KimDaBaInterface::currentScope() {
>   if ( currentSelection().valid() )
>     return currentSelection();
>   else
>     return currentAlbum();
> }

and how exactly does it value on top of just having currentSelection/currentAlbum.

renchi