> On Feb. 4, 2014, 5:19 p.m., Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> > Any particular reason for not using an abstract class? The D macro makes 
> > the code a bit surprising to read.
> 
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     see discussion of https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115225/ (comment 
> thread started by Aaron) - I wanted to keep the same pattern.
> 
> Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
>     Sounds like premature optimization to me, but then, you are the 
> maintainer, so it's your call. Naming the macro DELEGATE like in the other 
> patch would make it easier to read, and a good idea if you want to follow the 
> same pattern.
> 
> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     Yes it kind of sounds like premature optimization, but I like another 
> aspect of it: each backend needs to provide an implementation for all methods 
> and cannot rely on the dummy implementation. Thus the maintainer of the 
> backend has to think about the proper default value. Also a change like 
> introducing a new method will compile fail on other platforms.
>     
>     Renaming the macro is a good suggestion, though.

You would get the compilation failures with a pure abstract class as well.


- Aurélien


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On Feb. 5, 2014, 5:55 p.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 5, 2014, 5:55 p.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for KDE Frameworks, kdewin and Alexander Richardson.
> 
> 
> Repository: kwindowsystem
> 
> 
> Description
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> 
> Introduce runtime platform support in KWindowSystem
> 
> This is a change similar to the one in KWindowInfo, but with variation
> to the pattern due to the static container.
> 
> There is now a generic implementation of KWindowSystem which is
> completely windowing system platform independent. This implementation
> delegates all methods into a KWindowSystemPrivate class.
> 
> Each windowing system platform implementation needs to provide a
> subclass (e.g. KWindowSystemPrivateX11) and provide all the methods
> which are delegated. Note that there are no virtual methods defined,
> instead the d-pointer gets casted into the proper type. Thus if a
> method is not provided it will end in a compile error.
> 
> To make use of a platform implementation it needs to be included in
> the ctor of KWindowSystemStaticContainer and the PlatformImplementation
> enum needs to be extended by a value for the platform. This is used in
> the D macro to cast and delegate correctly.
> 
> There is a dummy implementation for all not supported windowing system
> platforms.
> 
> This change also includes some API changes:
> * KWindowSystem::windows() returns a copy instead of const-ref
> * All methods are provided, there is no longer X11 specific methods
> * private methods and enums are removed
> 
> NOTE: This change breaks the implementation for Windows and Mac OS!
> They are currently excluded from build.
> 
> 
> Diffs
> -----
> 
>   src/CMakeLists.txt 23133d581944a8373b9b753b300d97054b7d6f18 
>   src/kwindowinfo.cpp c706b29b306b65c992a178d490819b76e1aeca84 
>   src/kwindowsystem.h d288e1ab7c49f68482c94285c2aab695f08f3524 
>   src/kwindowsystem.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   src/kwindowsystem_p.h PRE-CREATION 
>   src/kwindowsystem_p_x11.h PRE-CREATION 
>   src/kwindowsystem_x11.cpp 8d841cbcec41dc2d4df381338803902badf3f35e 
> 
> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/115459/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> Unit tests still succeed for X11, but they are not complete, though the most 
> important aspects are tested.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin Gräßlin
> 
>

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