Framework for KDE Graphical Components

This library implements the framework for KDE parts, which are elaborate widgets with a user-interface defined in terms of actions (menu items, toolbar icons). See KParts::Part.

The library also provides a framework for applications that want to use parts. Such applications need to inherit their main window from KParts::MainWindow and provide a so-called shell GUI, which provides a basic skeleton GUI with part-independent functionality/actions.

Some KParts applications won't be specific to a given part, but expect to be able to embed, for instance, all types of viewers out there. For this the basic functionality of any viewer has been implemented in KParts::ReadOnlyPart, which viewer-like parts should inherit from. The same applies to KParts::ReadWritePart, which is for editor-like parts.

You can add actions to an existing KParts app from "outside", defining the code for those actions in a shared library. This mechanism is obviously called plugins, and implemented by KParts::Plugin.

For a complete, and very simple, example of how to use KParts to display any kind of file (i.e. making a generic viewer), see the documentation for KParts::ComponentFactory::createPartInstanceFromQuery.

Author(s):

Simon Hausmann <hausm.nosp@m.ann@.nosp@m.kde.o.nosp@m.rg>
David Faure <faure.nosp@m.@kde.nosp@m..org>
Kurt Granroth <granr.nosp@m.oth@.nosp@m.kde.o.nosp@m.rg>
Michael Koch <koch@.nosp@m.kde..nosp@m.org>

Maintainer(s):

[Unknown/None]

License(s):

LGPLv2