On Wednesday 15 September 2004 04:14, Ryan Gammon wrote: > For kdemm, one idea would be to use QCOM > (http://doc.trolltech.com/3.0/component.html). I'm not sure how much > QCOM is actually used in kde, if at all, but if it's viable, one could: > - add a getUnknown() method to KDE::Multimedia::Player that returns a > QUnknownInterface > - most apps use the basic KDE::Multimedia::Player api > - apps that want/need advanced engine functionality can QueryInterface > for back-end specific extensions > - apps need header files for the interface definitions for those > extensions, but don't actually have to link directly to the back-end. Unfortunately QCOM is not part of the public API of Qt. The article you referenced is from the Qt3 pre-release era, maybe it will be realized with Qt4 Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User www.mrunix.de - Unix/Linux programming forum www.qtforum.org - Qt programming forum _______________________________________________ kde-multimedia mailing list kde-multimedia@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-multimedia