Re: Plugin system gtkmm.

["Marko Anastasov" <marko anastasov gmail com>]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Germán Diago <germandiago gmail com> wrote:
> 2008/10/27 Marko Anastasov <marko anastasov gmail com>:
>> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Germán Diago <germandiago gmail com> wrote:
>>> Hello. I'm implementing a system to be able to deploy shared libraries
>>> as plugins in an application.
>>> My framework is gtkmm-centric, so I thought it could be a good
>>> candidate (after adaptation) for gtkmm-utils.
>>> The library right now has an Application, GUIManager and a Plugin
>>> class. My main goal is to be able
>>> to attach GUI elements plus behavour through shared libraries.
>>> If someone requests me the (incomplete) code I have, I can send it. I
>>> would like to have something like
>>> Mono.Addins in functionality, although I don't mind if the API is
>>> similar or not.
>>
>> Hi Germán,
>>
>> I'm the maintainer of gtkmm-utils. An easy to use plug-in system
>> sounds good, but without some code and example it's hard to say
>> anything specific. Dodji Seketeli has developed something like that
>> based on GModules from Glib for Nemiver [1] [2]. I never really
>> took time to understand and add that to gtkmm-utils.
>>
>> If you want, what you could do is clone the gtkmm-utils git repository [3],
>> add your code with an example and show us how it works.
>>
>>    Marko
>>
>> [1] http://mail.gna.org/public/nemiver-list/2006-09/msg00008.html
>> [2] http://svn.gnome.org/svn/nemiver/trunk/src/common/nmv-dynamic-module.h
>> [3] git clone git://git.savannah.nongnu.org/gtkmm-utils.git
>>
>
> I have some basic examples working right now. Now you can add GUI
> actions. I think
> the problem with the library is that it depends on boost::shared_ptr.
> Maybe this dependency should be removed.
> Anyway, do you allow to use std::tr1::shared_ptr as a dependency? I
> would like to know this.
> I need to use them because I rely on the use of them when I add
> factory functions to register widgets and plugins.

In fact gtkmm-utils does use std::tr1::shared_ptr.

> I don't have much time now. But I'll put examples during this week or
> the next one. The code is just a proof of
> concept so that everyone can tell me what's wrong and what's good
> about it. If you like the idea, then I'll start porting
> code so that it can be used by more people. This way it gets tested a lot.

Sure, whenever you have time.

    Marko