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+/* This file is part of the KDE project
+   Copyright (C) 1999 Simon Hausmann <hausmann@kde.org>
+             (C) 1999 David Faure <faure@kde.org>
+
+   This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+   modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
+   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+   version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+   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 __kparts_factory_h__
+#define __kparts_factory_h__
+
+#include <klibloader.h>
+
+class QWidget;
+
+namespace KParts
+{
+
+class Part;
+
+/**
+ * A generic factory object to create a Part.
+ *
+ * Factory is an abstract class. Reimplement the 
+ * createPartObject() method to give it functionality.
+ *
+ * @see KLibFactory.
+ */
+class KPARTS_EXPORT Factory : public KLibFactory
+{
+  Q_OBJECT
+public:
+  Factory( QObject *parent = 0, const char *name = 0 );
+  virtual ~Factory();
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a part.
+     *
+     * The QStringList can be used to pass additional arguments to the part.
+     * If the part needs additional arguments, it should take them as
+     * name="value" pairs. This is the way additional arguments will get passed
+     * to the part from eg. khtml. You can for example embed the part into HTML
+     * by using the following code:
+     * \code
+     *    <object type="my_mimetype" data="url_to_my_data">
+     *        <param name="name1" value="value1">
+     *        <param name="name2" value="value2">
+     *    </object>
+     * \endcode
+     * This could result in a call to
+     * \code
+     *     createPart( parentWidget, name, parentObject, parentName, "KParts::Part",
+     *                 QStringList("name1="value1"", "name2="value2") );
+     * \endcode
+     *
+     * @returns the newly created part.
+     *
+     * createPart() automatically emits a signal KLibFactory::objectCreated to tell
+     * the library about its newly created object.  This is very
+     * important for reference counting, and allows unloading the
+     * library automatically once all its objects have been destroyed.
+     */
+     Part *createPart( QWidget *parentWidget = 0, const char *widgetName = 0, QObject *parent = 0, const char *name = 0, const char *classname = "KParts::Part", const QStringList &args = QStringList() );
+
+     /**
+      * If you have a part contained in a shared library you might want to query
+      * for meta-information like the about-data, or the KInstance in general.
+      * If the part is exported using KParts::GenericFactory then this method will
+      * return the instance that belongs to the part without the need to instantiate
+      * the part component.
+      */
+     const KInstance *partInstance();
+
+     /**
+      * A convenience method for partInstance() that takes care of retrieving
+      * the factory for a given library name and calling partInstance() on it.
+      *
+      * @param libraryName name of the library to query the instance from
+      */
+     static const KInstance *partInstanceFromLibrary( const QCString &libraryName );
+
+protected:
+
+    /**
+     * Reimplement this method in your implementation to create the Part.
+     *
+     * The QStringList can be used to pass additional arguments to the part.
+     * If the part needs additional arguments, it should take them as
+     * name="value" pairs. This is the way additional arguments will get passed
+     * to the part from eg. khtml. You can for example emebed the part into HTML
+     * by using the following code:
+     * \code
+     *    <object type="my_mimetype" data="url_to_my_data">
+     *        <param name="name1" value="value1">
+     *        <param name="name2" value="value2">
+     *    </object>
+     * \endcode
+     * This could result in a call to
+     * \code
+     *     createPart( parentWidget, name, parentObject, parentName, "Kparts::Part",
+     *                 QStringList("name1="value1"", "name2="value2") );
+     * \endcode
+     *
+     * @returns the newly created part.
+     */
+    virtual Part *createPartObject( QWidget *parentWidget = 0, const char *widgetName = 0, QObject *parent = 0, const char *name = 0, const char *classname = "KParts::Part", const QStringList &args = QStringList() ) = 0;
+    
+    /**
+     * Reimplemented from KLibFactory. Calls createPart()
+     */
+    virtual QObject *createObject( QObject *parent = 0, const char *name = 0, const char *classname = "QObject", const QStringList &args = QStringList() );
+
+    /** This 'enum' along with the structure below is NOT part of the public API.
+      * It's going to disappear in KDE 4.0 and is likely to change inbetween.
+      *
+      * @internal
+      */
+    enum { VIRTUAL_QUERY_INSTANCE_PARAMS = 0x10 };
+    struct QueryInstanceParams
+    {
+        const KInstance *instance;
+    };
+};
+
+}
+
+/*
+ * vim: et sw=4
+ */
+
+#endif