On 18.09.2009, at 15:36, ext Liebe Markus (RtP2/TEF72) wrote:
> Hi Eike, Daniel and Bjørn
>
> Thanks for your replies! They were all very useful to me.
> As a quick roundup: The problem was:
> I have a signal emitted in the CPPEditor class, to which I want to
> connect a slot in my own plugin TasktrackerPlugin and I don't get it.
>
> Eike wrote:
>> You'll probably want to monitor editor creation by the use of the
>> corresponding signals of the EditorManager,
>> and in case of the created editor being a cpp one, connect to your
>> signal.
>
> Hi Eike. I tried to do this.
> The problem for me was that the signal editorCreated(Core::IEditor*,
> const Qstring &fileName) passes just an Interface to the Editor.
> In my plugin I was able to connect to the editorCreated(...) signal.
> But in the corresponding slot I then had a pointer to a
> Core::Ieditor. I found no way to get a pointer to a CPPEditor or a
> BaseTextEditor. And I found no way to somehow get such a pointer via
> the interface.
IEditor *editor = ...;
CPPEditor *cppeditor = qobject_cast<CPPEditor *>(editor->widget());
if (cppeditor) {
connect(....);
}
I agree that it's not obvious :)
And it isn't elegant either.
> So I had no possibility to connect to a signal which is emitted from
> the CPPEditor class or the BaseTextEditor class.
> As a consequence I dropped this idea. Perhaps there is a way to
> achieve this, but I did not get it.
>
> Bjørn wrote:
>> I recently moved the Ctrl+Click navigation down into the
>> BaseTextEditor.
>> Hooking into that requires reimplementing the virtual methods
>> BaseTextEditor::findLinkAt and BaseTextEditor::openLink. The
>> CPPEditor
>> has implementations of those that you should be able to extend.
>
> I did so. This worked for me.
>
> At the moment I have a solution for my problem. I used
> addAutoReleasedObject(...) in my plugin to add an Interface to the
> tasktrackerplugin.
> In the cppeditor I get a pointer to this addedObject and I am able
> to call a function of this object to load the specified tasktracker
> id in the tasktrackermodes webview.
>
> It is certainly not the most elegant way to do that I am afraid. But
> for the moment it works. Now I will try to get a deeper look into
> the creator sources to get an understanding of how to do it better.
>
> The best case for me would be If it would be possible to implement
> everything in the plugin. Without the need to touch the CPPEditor at
> all.
>
> I am looking forward to the Developer days. Perhaps I will chat with
> a few of you on this topic.
Don't hesitate to chat with us on irc, #qt-creator on freenode :)
++ Eike
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