[Qt-interest] QObject based plugins

[Andre Somers]

Hi,

In my application, I am using a lot of plugins. I am currently using 
QPluginLoader and the Q_DECLARE_INTERFACE macro to define the interface. 
However, I find the system a bit limited. While my plugins turn up as 
QObjects and I can give them signals and slots, I can only do that in 
the specific implementation. The interface itself is not a QObject.

I would really like to be able to create an interface complete with all 
the wonderfull features Qt offers: signals, slots, introspection, etc. I 
know I can cast the loaded plugins to QObject and connect to signals and 
slots I know are (should be) there, but that is not a very nice way of 
working. That means that the interface I define, is not really the 
complete interface.

Is there some way to make the plugins right from the interface 
definition real QObjects? And does that also work if a plugin object 
implements more than one QObject-like interface? Am I missing something 
obvious?

Thanks,

André