From kde-devel Mon Apr 02 18:21:41 2001 From: Michael Jarrett Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 18:21:41 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: writing an archiver app X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=98623710320187 Lev Povalahev wrote: > > hi! > > Is it possible to write an archiver app (like ark), but using the KIO slaves > for supporting different file formats? If yes where is a good point to start? > (any KDE app that uses similar technique maybe?). Well, if you wrote it using kioslaves, you'd not have any need for an app at all, since it'd be exactly the same thing as konqueror. So the task would be more to write the ioslaves themselves. A good place to start is looking at the tar ioslave in kdebase. Currently ark already borrows some of the code from the tar ioslave (long story), but really, it is my understanding that the point of an ioslave is more to abstract any file over an access medium; a kpart is more suited for displaying specific filetypes. -- Michael Jarrett michaelj@corel.com -- The address in the headers is not the poster's real email address. Do not send private mail to the poster using your mailer's "reply" feature. CC's of mail to mailing lists are OK. Problem reports to "postmaster@umail.corel.com". The poster's email address is "michaelj@corel.com". >> Visit http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<