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diff --git a/kompare/DESIGN b/kompare/DESIGN new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fde8a5c9 --- /dev/null +++ b/kompare/DESIGN @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Kompare General design: + +Kompare is split up into 4 parts: +- A shell around the parts +- A library with the modellist and the parser +- The navigation tree which uses the library +- The view part that also uses the library + +The diffmodel is comparable to a document and the view part is comparable +to the view and the komparemodellist is comparable to a documentmanager. +The navtree can be viewed as a document view manager. +The model is fully separated from the view and all communication goes +through signals and slots. The view gets a model that contains all differences +for the compared files A and B. The view gets this model from the modellist, +the central entity in the part. + +There is an interface to the komparepart that can be used in other programs, +simply link to the libkompareinterface.la and call its methods after you have +instanciated a komparepart. There is also a "hidden" signal and slot interface +that can be connected to from the shell app to get some information, and an +interface for communication between the navigation part and the komparepart. + +There is no need to use the interface for the communication between the +navigation and kompare parts in the shell app. + +Kompare has some debug areas: + +8100 kompare +8101 kompare (libs) +8102 kompare (shell) +8103 kompare (part) +8104 kompare (list view) +8105 kompare (nav view) +8106 kompare (connect widget) + |