Quoting David Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am interested in understanding more about the plugin capability of > abiword. Where can I find docmentation on the plugin interface (win32)?
Hi David, AbiWord's plugin architecture is very simple at the present time, but that doesn't mean that things like importers/exporters and dialogs can't be done as plugins. Here's a *short* write-up on Abi and plugins. I promise to write up something more thorough and comprehensive shortly. A plugin must implement 3 simple "extern C" functions: ABI_FAR_CALL abi_plugin_register ABI_FAR_CALL abi_plugin_unregister ABI_FAR_CALL abi_plugin_supports_version *Once* in every plugin, you must globally call ABI_PLUGIN_DECLARE(<string>) which will expand to the appropriate code to allow plugins to be loaded & run (i.e. nothing on Unix, DllMain() on Win32) After that, you can do *anything* in your plugin. You can use *any* AbiWord interface, function, or class, so long as the function/class has been declared with ABI_EXPORT (which evaluates to nothing on unix and the appropriate __declspec() call on Win32) I'll get something better written up as soon as I have time. Suffice it to say that plugins work on unix and win32 now. Dom
