From kde-devel  Thu Dec 07 22:31:01 2000
From: Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () trolltech ! com>
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 22:31:01 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Using XML to create dialogs
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=97622797520822

On Thursday 07 December 2000 22:19, Benjamin Ellis wrote:
> On Thursday 07 December 2000 05:40 am, Emmeran Seehuber wrote:
> > On Thursday 07 December 2000 06:05, Benjamin Ellis wrote:
> > > Hey, I'm wanting to use XML to make "pluggins" for an application
> > > engine... What the XML file would have is the different dialogs
> > > required for this plugin, the contents of each dialog, and other stuff,
> > > like defaults...  Is there some sort of framework in existence in
> > > KDE/Qt to help me do this? The dialogs could be compiled in or loaded
> > > dynamically (preferred) and so the XML would handle all dialogs and set
> > > up slots/signals etc....
> >
> > Did you take a look at the Qt Designer? It saves the dialogs as XML files
> > and contains also a tool which generates C++ sources out of it.
> >
> > I did some routines which parses the XML file and creates a dialog of it.
> > But this routines only support a small subset of controls. Maybe you are
> > interessted in this routines.
> >
> > cu,
> >   Emmy
>
> Yeah, Qt Designer is not what i'm looking for.. The idea is the same, but I
> need to make my program generate this (simple) dialogs at runtime.  The
> purpose is so that you can make XML pluggin addons to the program and the
> program will know how to handle the dialogs for the addons and won't
> require a recompile.
>
> I would be interested in seeing the routines you have, it sounds like what
> i'm trying to do.

JFYI: Qt 3.0 will have a class which can dynamically create dialogs from .ui 
files on runtime.

-- 
Reggie (reggie@trolltech.com)
 
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