kdelibs/kdecore/util/klibrary.h
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/* This file is part of the KDE libraries
Copyright (C) 2007 Bernhard Loos <nhuh.put@web.de.org>
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Library General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License
along with this library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not, write to
the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
*/
#ifndef KLIBRARY_H
#define KLIBRARY_H
#include <kdecore_export.h>
#include <kglobal.h>
#include <QtCore/QLibrary>
class KLibraryPrivate;
class KPluginFactory;
/**
* \class KLibrary klibrary.h <KLibrary>
*
* Thin wrapper around QLibrary; you should rarely use this directly, see KPluginLoader for higher-level loading of plugins.
* KLibrary adds kde3-factory and kde4-factory support to QLibrary (for the deprecated KLibLoader)
* KLibrary also searches libs in the kde search paths.
*/
class KDECORE_EXPORT KLibrary : public QLibrary
{
Q_OBJECT
Q_PROPERTY(QString fileName READ fileName WRITE setFileName)
public:
typedef void (*void_function_ptr) ();
explicit KLibrary(QObject *parent = 0);
explicit KLibrary(const QString &name, const KComponentData &cData = KGlobal::mainComponent(), QObject *parent = 0);
KLibrary(const QString &name, int verNum, const KComponentData &cData = KGlobal::mainComponent(), QObject *parent = 0);
virtual ~KLibrary();
/**
* Returns the factory of the library.
* @param factoryname The postfix to the init_ symbol used to create the
* factory object. It corresponds to the first parameter to
* K_EXPORT_COMPONENT_FACTORY.
* @return The factory of the library if there is any, otherwise 0
* @deprecated use KPluginLoader::factory
*/
KDE_DEPRECATED KPluginFactory* factory( const char* factoryname = 0 );
/**
* Looks up a symbol from the library. This is a very low level
* function that you usually don't want to use.
* @param name the name of the symbol to look up
* @return the address of the symbol, or 0 if it does not exist
*/
void *resolveSymbol(const char *name);
/**
* Looks up a symbol from the library. This is a very low level
* function that you usually don't want to use.
* @param name the name of the symbol to look up
* @return the address of the symbol, or 0 if it does not exist
*/
void_function_ptr resolveFunction(const char *name);
void setFileName(const QString &name, const KComponentData &data = KGlobal::mainComponent());
bool unload() { return false; } //this is only temporary. i will remove it as soon as I have removed all dangerous users of it
private:
KLibraryPrivate *d_ptr;
};
#endif