/* This file is part of libkresources. Copyright (c) 2002 Tobias Koenig Copyright (c) 2002 Jan-Pascal van Best Copyright (c) 2003 Cornelius Schumacher This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ #ifndef KRESOURCES_FACTORY_H #define KRESOURCES_FACTORY_H #include #include #include #include "resource.h" namespace KRES { //US struct PluginInfo { QString library; QString nameLabel; QString descriptionLabel; }; /** * Class for loading resource plugins. * Do not use this class directly. Use ResourceManager instead * * Example: * *
 * KABC::Factory *factory = KABC::Factory::self();
 *
 * QStringList list = factory->resources();
 * QStringList::Iterator it;
 * for ( it = list.begin(); it != list.end(); ++it ) {
 *   Resource *resource = factory->resource( (*it),
 *        KABC::StdAddressBook::self(), 0 );
 *   // do something with resource
 * }
 * 
*/ class Factory { public: /** * Returns the global resource factory. */ static Factory *self( const QString& resourceFamily ); ~Factory(); /** * Returns the config widget for the given resource type, * or a null pointer if resource type doesn't exist. * * @param type The type of the resource, returned by @ref resources() * @param resource The resource to be editted. * @param parent The parent widget */ ConfigWidget *configWidget( const QString& type, QWidget *parent = 0 ); /** * Returns a pointer to a resource object or a null pointer * if resource type doesn't exist. * * @param type The type of the resource, returned by @ref resources() * @param ab The address book, the resource should belong to * @param config The config object where the resource get it settings from, or 0 if a new resource should be created. */ Resource *resource( const QString& type, const KConfig *config ); /** * Returns a list of all available resource types. */ QStringList typeNames() const; /** * Returns the name for a special type. */ QString typeName( const QString &type ) const; /** * Returns the description for a special type. */ QString typeDescription( const QString &type ) const; protected: Factory( const QString& resourceFamily ); private: static QDict *mSelves; QString mResourceFamily; //US QMap mTypeMap; //US lets store the pluginfo struct as value instead of a KService QMap mTypeMap; }; } #endif