| Summary: | priority of data sources | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kst | Reporter: | Andrew Walker <arwalker> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | kst |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | ||
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 1.x | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | RedHat Enterprise Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Andrew Walker
2003-11-12 22:59:35 UTC
Subject: Re: [Kst] New: priority of data sources On Wednesday 12 November 2003 16:59, Andrew Walker wrote: > There may be situations in which more than one of the KstDataSource plugins > is willing to try and read in a given datafile, based on the filename, > format, etc. > > It might be advantageous to add an out parameter to the "understands" > function such that a KstDataSource can indicate its level of certainty that > it does understand a particular file. (e.g. UNDERSTAND_DEFINITE, > UNDERSTAND_POSSIBLE, UNDERSTAND_WILL_GIVE_IT_A_GO) This parameter could > then be used to select the best suited KstDataSource. All else being equal > the first KstDataSource queried will be assigned the file. Yes we have been discussing this as well. There are a couple of approaches to this and I expect I will make this change sometime before the end of the month. CVS commit by staikos: implement data source priorities understands_ now returns an int, defined to be 0..100 as a "percentage match" CCMAIL: 68074-done@bugs.kde.org M +1 -1 devel-docs/RELEASE_PLAN 1.19 M +30 -6 kst/kstdatasource.cpp 1.25 M +4 -4 kst/datasources/ascii/ascii.cpp 1.18 M +4 -4 kst/datasources/dirfile/dirfile.cpp 1.8 M +3 -3 kst/datasources/frame/frame.cpp 1.5 M +5 -5 kst/datasources/indirect/indirect.cpp 1.3 M +3 -5 kst/datasources/lfiio/lfiio.cpp 1.8 M +2 -2 kst/datasources/planck/planck.cpp 1.17 M +4 -2 kst/datasources/template/template.cpp 1.4 |