[Qt-creator] Plugin question

[Enrico Ros]

On Wednesday 08 July 2009 13:46:25 Eike Ziller wrote:
> On Jul 7, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Teske Daniel (Nokia-D-Qt/Berlin) wrote:
> > ext Enrico Ros schrieb:
> >> Hello, I'm starting to develop a QtCreator Plugin, based on the
> >> "helloworld"
> >> example. I've got 3 quick questions:
> >>
> >> - the menu entry for the plugin and the "mode button" are disabled by
> >> default, even if I enable the actions in the code. what do I miss
> >> here?
> >
> > Ah that's probably the "context" thing. Each action you register has a
> > context. (Multiple plugins can register the same action in different
> > contexts.)
> > Context is mostly determined by which widget has focus and I think the
> > mode. I don't think we have that documented.
>
> Actually there is some documentation about that in the
> Core::ActionManager class :)
> You can generate the little bit of existing API documentation by
> running qdoc3 on qtcreator-api.qdocconf in the doc/api/ directory
> (after that open html/index.html).
>
> ++ Eike

Thanks Eike. Reading the docs finally clarified the details to me ;-)
While on the subject, I took down some notes that maybe can be somewhat useful 
to you.

 - ActionContainer::addAction takes a Core::Command (not Action?). Suggestion: 
addCommand(Command *, ...); or some other renaming?

 - The Debugger::Constants::C_GDBDEBUGGER is: 1. not strictly related to GDB 
(CDB). 2. represents the Debug Mode (ctrl+3), thus only representes "being in 
the debug panel". Suggested: C_DEBUG_MODE

 - Debugger::Constants::GDBRUNNING is a context identifier but: 1. lacks the 
C_, 2. not strictly GDB, 3. represents something being Debugged but it's 
active only when the application is interrupted. Suggested: C_DEBUGGER_ACTIVE

 - The "Debug Menu" Action Collection is ProjectExplorer::Constants::M_DEBUG. 
Suggested: Debug::Constants::M_DEBUG, like other tools.

Those are only from a "user" point of view. Feel free to ignore all this, 
writing a plugin is easy anyways ;-)

Enrico Ros

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