[Panel-devel] Sensors and Meters in SK

[Richard Moore]

On 9/11/05, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote: 
> 
> hell if you _really_ wanted to you could make Meter an interface only and
> require multiple inheritance (e.g. MyMeter : public QWidget, public
> Plasma:Meter) at which point a sensor could be used with "anything". 
> granted
> MI isn't the prettiest thing, but it may be just what the doc ordered 
> here.
> my primary concern is scripting languages that don't allow for MI, such as
> Ruby. though Ruby could probably use mix ins instead to include the 
> MyMeter
> interface. still, i'd be a bit concerned about requiring some sort of
> multiple inheritence / implementation scheme and not bother.

 I think using signals and slot is a much better design than using MI here. 
MI will cause a number of problems, particularly for any bindings that pass 
stuff around in a void *.
 Rich.
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