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    Smile Designing a new core application

    I hope this is the right forrum
    I'm starting a new project for my honors degree, its a component based system whereby the system presents an api to the world and one can program according to that api.
    This is a component system as everything except the system itself will be components which will be added and removed in runtime.. now for the questions:
    Daemon will be QT4.

    - The system is opensource, so I suppose QCoreApllication will be good enough to run the system as a daemon on both linux and windows(opensource eddition)?
    - Any ideas what I can maybe search for when it comes to components.. how to design these things and an api?

    Anyone knows about any good tutorials or docs on component systems/modules or something that is added to a system in runtime which lets the system communicate with something outside the system through the added component/module?

    Any feedback appreciated

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    Quote Originally Posted by bothapn
    how to design these things and an api?
    You didn't write what your system will do, so I can tell you only that you should design them well If you want to create a real Unix daemon, you need a bit more than QCoreApplication.

    http://doc.trolltech.com/4.1/qlibrary.html
    http://doc.trolltech.com/4.1/qpluginloader.html
    http://doc.trolltech.com/qq/qq13-apis.html

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    Hmm... Read Qt docs. And I don't mean "go find your answer in Qt docs", but read the docs to have a look at good API (You might also want to take a look at this). As a side effect you'll find the "plug and paint" example in the docs too, which answers your question about pluggable modules.


    BTW. I see Jacek was faster again :P

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    Quote Originally Posted by jacek
    If you want to create a real Unix daemon, you need a bit more than QCoreApplication.
    man 3 daemon

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    Quote Originally Posted by wysota
    man 3 daemon
    and man 3 signal

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    The Trolls have some of the best api docs I've ever used. See http://doc.trolltech.com/qq/qq13-apis.html for some great advice.

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    Default Re: Designing a new core application

    Thanx guys!

    It will not be a true deamon as such, it will simple be a program that is started at bootup.

    thanx for all the real help real fast

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    Even if you don't have access to Qt Solutions, have at least a look at the documentation of QtService.

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