From kde-devel  Wed Dec 11 00:30:33 2002
From: Anders Lund <anders.lund () lund ! tdcadsl ! dk>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 00:30:33 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: beginner alert
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On Wednesday 11 December 2002 00:54, Andy Gill wrote:
> i'm just starting to write my first kde app, and i want it to be
> plugin-based. my question is: is the kparts::plugin stuff a good way to
> do this or is it not meant for this and i should be writing my own plugin
> system?

KParts::Plugin is for kpart plugins (suprise :), so if you impelemnt a kpart 
you allready have a plugin system at hand. Even if you don't, looking at it 
won't hurt.

Except for that, look in the source of any application using plugins to check 
how it is done.

In kate, we use a base class for the plugins providing access to the 
interfaces needed, and have a pluginmanager to handle loading/unloading. We 
support integrating the plugin's (optional) configure dialog pages into the 
main configuration dialog. The code is in kdebase/kate.

-anders

 
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