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Hi all,

after spending the weekend in front of my laptop, here are the results. You=
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can download the code (early design state!) from=20
http://www.rtr.tu-darmstadt.de/~eva/download/kmath-0.1.tar.gz
I used kbruch as an example.=20

Right now working is:
=2D - a lib with the interface of edu parts
=2D - the part (kbruch, I did change the design of kbruch only where I had =
to)
=2D - the communication between the part and the shell
=2D - the shell has some small functionality (statistics class is taken fro=
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kbruch)

Missing (or only very quick&dirty implemented) is:
=2D - configuration of the part (and thus the exercises)
=2D - configuration of test suites
=2D - correct loading and management of different parts (at the moment kbru=
ch is=20
hard coded)
=2D - command line option to load a specific part (that can be used to crea=
te
  desktop files for each part, so that it can be used as standalone app)

The source has the following directories:
keduparts - interface of the edupart
kmath - shell
plugins - place of the parts (rename to "parts"?)
plugins/kbruch - kbruch edu part

Last weekend we had a diskussion about the class, the edupart interface sho=
uld=20
inherit from. After reading kparts code and the documentation, I think, I c=
an=20
say, that we definitly have parts in our application and no plugins. Plugin=
s=20
originally don't have widgets, parts do have. Parts also don't need to hand=
le=20
files, this only applies to the two specialisations of Kparts::Part which a=
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Kparts::KReadOnlyPart and KParts::KReadWritePart.
So far it's not yet clear in my code, but I think, I'll rename all "plugins=
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into "parts".

Still, I got the idea, that we indeed might want to deal with files along w=
ith=20
the edu parts. Right now, most math apps create random exercises (or is tas=
k=20
the better word?), which the user has to do. The user has no chance, to sav=
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a set of exercises and repeat it later. The user also cannot save test=20
parameters like, the number of tasks, the level of difficulty, the special=
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type.=20
Now imagine, we want to enable this... here comes the KParts::ReadWritePart=
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in. All edu apps would work on the same mimetype (.edu?) and these files=20
describe tests consisting of a number of tasks, which are maybe implemented=
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in several edu part libraries.=20

So far for today... time to enjoy the rest of the weekend without a compute=
r=20
:-)

Greetings,
eva


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