[Fwd: kdevelop.cpp]

[Falk Brettschneider]

John Birch wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > John Birch wrote:
> > > So, are we arguing a philosophical viewpoint, rather than a technical
> > > implementation problem ?
> >
> > Yep. The technical problems are depending on those things.
> >
> > > Doesn't the centralised approach mean that every window must be "created"
> > > by kdevelop - that doesn't feel right to me.
> >
> > It means the inner view widgets (ClassView, BreakPointManager,...) are
> > created by every part itself. But they are docked together centralized, no
> > part does not know nothing about docking, that's why dockwidgets are
> > created centralized (class KDevelop), not in the parts.
>
> You're saying that there are x number of "outer parts" that wrap the inner
> parts.
>
> In the debuggers case we have disassembler, var, breakpoint, framestack inner
> widgets. Each must have a dock outer widget that must be created by kdevelop.

What exactly does 'kdevelop' mean here?

>
>
> How is this done?

Using the interface KDevelop::embedToolViewInGUI(QWidget*,...hints...) in an
init() routine of your special part. It registers your widget to the main GUI
control but does not know where it will appear (and if it is worthy to appear at
all ;-).
I think the interface should also provide an removeToolViewFromGUI(QWidget*)
command, and maybe a command for changing hints. That should be enough for a
dynamic handling.

>
>
> What happens if I create a perl debugger part that has only var, breakpoint,
> and framestack?

It will call only 3 commands on the main GUI control:
  pGUIControl->embedToolViewInGUI(m_pVAR,...hints...);
  pGUIControl->embedToolViewInGUI(m_pBreakpoints,...hints...);
  pGUIControl->embedToolViewInGUI(m_pFrameStack,...hints...);
// finished.

Well, a problem I see is that the main GUI control must know all types of
incoming tool widgets, I mean the semantics of each of such widgets. I don't
know the solution for the problem that with every new widget one has to put the
semantics interpretation to the main GUI control, in a way that the dockwidget
control knows what to do with the special incoming part-widget. I suppose that
could be done by the hints or  maybe the main GUI control could provide a
default handling.
--

Ciao,
--Falk


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