Runcontroller KJobs question

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 17.02.09 23:25:24, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 February 2009 22:58:38 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 17.02.09 20:56:07, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > > the runcontroller passes an KJob* to IRunProvider::execute. In case of 
> > > debugger, I want to mark this job as done when debugger exits, either
> > > normally or due to GDB crash. How can I do that, given that all
> > > of KJob methods of interest are protected?
> > 
> > Well, at some point that job is created and that is most probably not a
> > KJob, but  some subclass. That subclass should call emitResult() when
> > its "done" and also set any errors via setError and setErrorText before
> > that.
> 
> That is created in runcontroller.cpp and the actual class is RunJob and IRunProvider
> is not in position to intercept construction of that class. 
> 
> But I've already found the right way -- it appears that if IRunProvider implementatation
> has a finished(KJob*) signal, it will be used. Of course, this is not documented anywhere :-P

Maybe I'm missing something, but doesn't gdb-plugin create a job and tell
runcontroller to start it? If not, why doesn't it do that?

Andreas

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