Egon, I am still traveling in the US ... will be back in Spain next week.
Sounds great that you have thought out and implemented the plugin mechanism. I don't have any experience with class loaders, but I am very interested in learning about it. So I will look at it and give you my feedback later next week. Yes, it sounds like to me that this is a post release 8 feature. Miguel > > Hi Miguel, > > something I wanted to do for quite some time now is a plugin based > extension mechanism of Jmol. > > A pluging would be defined as: > > - a self consistent jar file > - which contains a XPlugin.class which implements JmolPluginInterface > (JPI) - the JPI has a API like: > - getName() > - getPluginPanel() -> for a user window > - getConfigPanel() -> for a configuration window > - getMenu() -> for a custom menu in the Plugin menu > - start() / stop() > - Jmol would instantiate a PluginManager which would load the plugins > from > e.g. $HOME/.jmol/plugin by > - parsing each jar, looking for the XPlugin.class > - checking wether the plugin class instantiates the > JmolPluginInterface - create a "Plugin Menu" with one entry for each > plugin, for which the > submenu contains two entries to access the user and config window, > and a list of custom menu items (as defined by getMenu()) > > Most of this I've implemented this weekend... It only lacks a custom > ClassLoader to load all classes needed by the plugin from the > plugin.jar... And it lacks a proper interface to Jmol... so that it can > actually perform editing operations... > > I am going to commit this against b6, but will not make it active... at > least, not untill the two problems are solved... which is probably not > before release v8 somewhere this week... I'll also commit a new module > in which plugins can be developed... (see commits)... > > All this is not final, but I need it for the one plugin that I am going > to commit... Comments/Ideas welcomed. > > Egon -------------------------------------------------- Miguel Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] c/Pe�a Primera 11-13 esc dcha 6B 37002 Salamanca Espa�a Spain -------------------------------------------------- telefono casa 923 27 10 82 movil 650 52 54 58 -------------------------------------------------- To call from the US dial 9:00 am Pacific US = home 011 34 923 27 10 82 12:00 noon Eastern US = cell 011 34 650 52 54 58 6:00 pm Spain -------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Jmol-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-developers
