How to get a pointer for mainwindow?

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 12.03.07 00:55:47, dukju ahn wrote:
> >From my plugin, I want to append popup menu in mainwindow
> ie.
> 
> connect( Core::mainWindow(),
>              SIGNAL(contextMenu(KMenu *, const Context *)),
>              this,
>              SLOT(contextMenu(KMenu *, const Context *)));
> 
> void KDevSubversionPart::contextMenu
>         (KMenu *menu, const KDevelop::Context *ctx)
> { menu->add.. }
> 
> This is from kdevcontext.h documentation. However, Core::mainWindow()
> does not actually exist. I cannot find any other way to retrieve
> mainwindow pointer.
> 
> Plugins can have access to ICore, and through ICore, IUiController
> can be accessed. But activeMainWindow() or defaultMainWindow()
> only exist in UiController, which the plugins does not have access.z

They do have access to ICore, see the IPlugin API.

> I looked up the KDevelop3 source code. At kdev3, ICore(KDevCore) emits
> contextMenu signal. Does the framework API is changed?

Yes of course it changed, because the KDevelop3 framework is not easily
usable for a platform approach like KDevelop4.

Andreas

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