[OT] plugins and QDockWidget

[kitts]

On Sunday 25 Mar 2007 IST, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > So generally speaking, i assume that every plugin instance maintains a
> > pointer to the mainwindow passed to it in the constructor, holds the
> > responsibility of providing its own mainwidget (if applicable) and
> > receives activation signals to show/hide associated dockwidgets.
>
> No, at least not in KDevelop4. We'd like to hide the mainwindow from any
> plugins as we will have multiple mainwindows but only 1 instance of a
> plugin. The plugin just provides a factory to create widgets for the
> dockwidgets and hopefully it'll also provide a way to create a central
> widget if it needs to.
>
> However there are also plugins in KDev4 that don't provide any of the
> two and just "do some work", like the project managers or project
> builders.

So the plugin itself cannot initiate the creation of a new dockwidget but 
will list them out when queried by the main app? The 'scope' of the plugin 
is set by the main app. I have in mind the situation where perhaps a new 
dockwidget is created/modified by the plugin based on the selection within 
its view. Of course, this could also be achieved by it rising a signal that 
is understood by the main app.
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Cheers!
kitts