Object plugins (Was: Re: Article in Inter.net (Was: RE: Bug 51471- Possible bugfix))

[Andreas Zehender]

Hi Luis!

On Saturday, 08. March 2003 07:34, Andreas Zehender wrote:
> The only problem so far:
> The insert rules system object is a singleton. Imagine the user opens a
> povray _and_ a renderman scene. These two parts are in the same process
> space and will share the singleton instance. The system will contain the
> rules of both plugins and therefore the rules of all renderman and povray
> objects. Same with the prototype manager.
>
> The plugins are loaded on a per part basis. That means the actions for the
> plugins objects (menu and toolbar items) are only visible in the
> corresponding window.
[...]
> The only solution seems to be for me to remove many singletons like the
> insert rules system and the prototype manager, add an own instance of these
> classes to the part and add a pointer to the part to all objects.

Done.
- PMPrototypeManager and PMInsertRuleSystem are no singletons any more, the 
part has how one instance of each.
- All objects have a pointer to the part now (needed to access the insert rule 
instance)
- To reduce memory consumption the meta object (PMMetaObject) has a factory 
method to create new object instances, the newObject factory methods are 
removed. Therefore the prototypes can be deleted immediately in the 
PMPrototypeManager::addPrototype call.

Andreas

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