Extending IToolViewFactory to be able to save state information

[Manuel Breugelmans]

On Thursday 26 June 2008 23:10:51 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> currently when a toolview wants to save some state thats pretty much
> impossible because there can be n toolviews and the last one overwrites
> the stuff from the first one as the toolviews don't know about each
> other.
>
> My idea to help with this is providing something like
>
> void saveState( KConfigGroup& );
> void restoreState( KConfigGroup& );
>
> on IToolViewFactory (as there's currently no IToolView interface that
> toolviews use to subclass from). This would get a config group which
> uniquely identifies the toolview in KDevelop (i.e. similar to how area's
> store their own state) and can just write its setting into that
> toolview.
>
> This would allow to easily implement storing the currently opened state
> of the project treeview and more importantly wether the detail-widget
> (i.e. currently only buildset) was visible or not.
>
> Anybody with a better idea how to solve this? Or any pointers where I
> should start looking for code that would call these functions?
>
> Andreas

+1

I to need save stuff for test-runner views as well.


Manuel