Re: Patch: Pluggable module loaders and demo loader

Hi again,

Am Donnerstag, den 03.02.2005, 10:55 +0100 schrieb Robert Staudinger:
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> Am Donnerstag, den 03.02.2005, 15:48 +1100 schrieb Martin Sevior:
> [...]
> > Hi Robert,
> > This sound like it is just what I wanted for the GtkMathView
> > but let me see if I understand....
> >
> > What I want is a way register a plugin that can then create a new class
> > linked to gtkMathView, without gtkmathview being linked to the plugin.
>
> Why should the plugin /not/ be linked to gtkmathview? I thought the goal
> was to not link abi itself but the plugin.

This came to my mind immediately after pressing send.

If the problem is that e.g. startup time would suffer a lot because
gtkmathview is linked to the plugin loaded at startup, we might consider
the following extension to the ModuleManager:

+ Create a "pair" of plugins, the "hook" and the "renderer"
+ The hook would be a regular plugin as described in my previous email
+ We could have a peer directory "AbiWord-2.4/dynplugins/" to the
  existing "AbiWord-2.4/plugins/" where we put plugins loaded on
  demand
+ When the hook is activated it loads the renderer. The toolbars,
  menu entries ... would be contained in the hook, of course.

This would probably also benefit scripting plugins because we could load
the interpreter on demand rather than at startup. We don't want to give
away the crown of fastest launching word processor - do we?

Best,
- Rob
Received on Thu Feb 3 11:33:33 2005