#include <plugin.h>

Inheritance diagram for Kate::Plugin:

Public Member Functions
	Plugin (Application application=0, const char name=0)

virtual	~Plugin ()

Application *	application () const

virtual PluginView *	createView (MainWindow *mainWindow)

virtual void	readSessionConfig (KConfigBase *config, const QString &groupPrefix)

virtual void	writeSessionConfig (KConfigBase *config, const QString &groupPrefix)

Public Member Functions inherited from QObject
	QObject (QObject *parent)

	QObject (QObject parent, const char name)

virtual	~QObject ()

bool	blockSignals (bool block)

QObject *	child (const char objName, const char inheritsClass, bool recursiveSearch) const

const QObjectList &	children () const

const char *	className () const

bool	connect (const QObject sender, const char signal, const char *method, Qt::ConnectionType type) const

void	deleteLater ()

void	destroyed (QObject *obj)

bool	disconnect (const QObject receiver, const char method)

bool	disconnect (const char signal, const QObject receiver, const char *method)

void	dumpObjectInfo ()

void	dumpObjectTree ()

QList< QByteArray >	dynamicPropertyNames () const

virtual bool	event (QEvent *e)

virtual bool	eventFilter (QObject watched, QEvent event)

T	findChild (const QString &name) const

QList< T >	findChildren (const QRegExp &regExp) const

QList< T >	findChildren (const QString &name) const

bool	inherits (const char *className) const

void	insertChild (QObject *object)

void	installEventFilter (QObject *filterObj)

bool	isA (const char *className) const

bool	isWidgetType () const

void	killTimer (int id)

virtual const QMetaObject *	metaObject () const

void	moveToThread (QThread *targetThread)

const char *	name () const

const char *	name (const char *defaultName) const

QString	objectName () const

QObject *	parent () const

QVariant	property (const char *name) const

void	removeChild (QObject *object)

void	removeEventFilter (QObject *obj)

void	setName (const char *name)

void	setObjectName (const QString &name)

void	setParent (QObject *parent)

bool	setProperty (const char *name, const QVariant &value)

bool	signalsBlocked () const

int	startTimer (int interval)

QThread *	thread () const

Additional Inherited Members
Static Public Member Functions inherited from QObject
bool	connect (const QObject sender, const char signal, const QObject receiver, const char method, Qt::ConnectionType type)

bool	connect (const QObject sender, const QMetaMethod &signal, const QObject receiver, const QMetaMethod &method, Qt::ConnectionType type)

bool	disconnect (const QObject sender, const char signal, const QObject receiver, const char method)

bool	disconnect (const QObject sender, const QMetaMethod &signal, const QObject receiver, const QMetaMethod &method)

QString	tr (const char sourceText, const char disambiguation, int n)

QString	trUtf8 (const char sourceText, const char disambiguation, int n)

Protected Member Functions inherited from QObject
bool	checkConnectArgs (const char signal, const QObject object, const char *method)

virtual void	childEvent (QChildEvent *event)

virtual void	connectNotify (const char *signal)

virtual void	customEvent (QEvent *event)

virtual void	disconnectNotify (const char *signal)

int	receivers (const char *signal) const

QObject *	sender () const

int	senderSignalIndex () const

virtual void	timerEvent (QTimerEvent *event)

Static Protected Member Functions inherited from QObject
QByteArray	normalizeSignalSlot (const char *signalSlot)

Properties inherited from QObject
	objectName

Detailed Description

Kate plugin interface.

Topics:

Introduction

The Plugin class is the central part of a Kate plugin. It is possible to represent your plugin in the GUI with a subclass of PluginView. Furthermore if the plugin is configurable (and thus has config pages) you have to additionally derive your plugin from PluginConfigPageInterface.

Configuration Management

When Kate loads a session it calls readSessionConfig(), so if you have config settings use this function to load them. To save config settings for a session use writeSessionConfig(), as it will be called whenever a session is saved/closed.

If you want to save config settings which are not bound to a session but valid for all plugin instances you have to create your own KConfig like this:

KConfig* myConfig = new KConfig("katemypluginrc");

Plugin Views

If your plugin needs to be present in the GUI (e.g. menu or toolbar entries) you have to subclass PluginView and return a new instance of your plugin view, like this:

class MyPluginView : public Kate::PluginView
{
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    MyPluginView(MainWindow *mainWindow);
    // possibilities of gui:
    // - hook into the menus with KXMLGUIClient
    // - create a toolView and put a widget into it with MainWindow::createToolView()
};
class MyPlugin : public Kate::Plugin
{
    Q_OBJECT
public:
    // other methods etc...
    PluginView *createView(MainWindow *mainWindow)
    {
        return new MyPluginView(mainWindow);
    }
};

The Kate application takes care and deletes all plugin views. Further information can be found in the class documentation of PluginView.

Config Pages

If your plugin is configurable it makes sense to have config pages which appear in Kate's settings dialog. To tell the plugin loader that your plugin supports config pages you have to additionally derive your plugin from the class PluginConfigPageInterface. Read the class documentation for PluginConfigPageInterface to see how to do this right.

See also: PluginView, PluginConfigPageInterface

Author: Christoph Cullmann <cullm[email protected][email protected][email protected]kde.o[email protected]rg>

Definition at line 114 of file plugin.h.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Kate::Plugin::Plugin	(	Application *	application = `0`,
		const char *	name = `0`
	)

explicit

Constructor.

Parameters

application	the Kate application
name	identifier

Definition at line 58 of file plugin.cpp.

Kate::Plugin::~Plugin ( )

virtual

Virtual destructor.

Definition at line 63 of file plugin.cpp.

Member Function Documentation

Application * Kate::Plugin::application ( ) const

Accessor to the Kate application.

Returns: the application object

Definition at line 81 of file plugin.cpp.

PluginView * Kate::Plugin::createView ( MainWindow * mainWindow )

virtual

Create a new View for this plugin for the given Kate MainWindow This may be called arbitrary often by the application to create as much views as mainwindows are around, the application will take care to delete this views if mainwindows close, you don't need to handle this yourself in the plugin.

The default implementation just doesn't create any view and returns a NULL pointer

Parameters

mainWindow the MainWindow for which a view should be created

Returns: the new created view or NULL

Definition at line 86 of file plugin.cpp.

void Kate::Plugin::readSessionConfig	(	KConfigBase *	config,
		const QString &	groupPrefix
	)

virtual

Load session specific settings here.

This function is called whenever a Kate session is loaded. You should use the given config and prefix groupPrefix to store the data. The group prefix exist so that the group does not clash with other applications that use the same config file.

Parameters

config	the KConfig object which is to be used
groupPrefix	the group prefix which is to be used

See also: writeSessionConfig()

Definition at line 91 of file plugin.cpp.

void Kate::Plugin::writeSessionConfig	(	KConfigBase *	config,
		const QString &	groupPrefix
	)

virtual

Store session specific settings here.

This function is called whenever a Kate session is saved. You should use the given config and prefix groupPrefix to store the data. The group prefix exists so that the group does not clash with other applications that use the same config file.

Parameters

config	the KConfig object which is to be used
groupPrefix	the group prefix which is to be used

See also: readSessionConfig()

Definition at line 94 of file plugin.cpp.

The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

kate/kate/interfaces/kate

Public Member Functions

Additional Inherited Members

Detailed Description

Introduction

Configuration Management

Plugin Views

Config Pages

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Member Function Documentation

kate/kate/interfaces/kate

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