From kde-core-devel  Thu Jul 06 23:39:47 2000
From: <pbrown () redhat ! com>
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 23:39:47 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Proposal: virtualify KConfigBase::parseConfigFiles()
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=96292677524385

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Charles wrote:

> 
> I'm using KSimpleConfig to create a stupid rediculous file format, and I want
> it to support KIO-files.  Well, rather than breaking modularity, I just derive
> from KSimpleConfig, and override the destructor and parseConfigFiles so that it
> will save and open via the NetAccess class.
> 
> Problem: it won't work, parseConfigFiles is non-virtual, and there would be no
> other way to read the file off the network.
> 
> So, I propose that we make that method virtual to allow this. (Since it's
> already protected, it seems illogical for it to not be virtual in the first
> place :)
> 

Why don't you simply implement a KConfigBackEnd?

-- 
  Preston Brown
  pbrown@redhat.com                                Red Hat, Inc.