Re: [Cxtable-devel] Uncategorized....

[<xi...@pr...>]

Cool...

the xPluginable interface is already what is used by 
the plugins....


My thought, though, is Jobob has his own package of 
cxtable plugins...

let's say...I want to play Jobob's super-duper 
battleship game...

jobob.cxtplugs.battleship.*;


How do I call that?  Would that be as simple as 
putting the .jarred up jobob package into a folder 
and...

xPluginable xpa = xPluginFactory.create
(...,"jobob.cxtplugs.battleship.BattleMain",true);?


--- Original Message ---
From: Borne Goodman-Mace <bm...@eg...>
To: David Scott Williams <xi...@pr...>
Subject: Re: [Cxtable-devel] Uncategorized....

>Right, that is currently the only Image.
>
>The way it should work in the long run (I suggest) 
would be that there
>is a Plugin interface which the "main" class for each 
plugin implements
>(if this isn't the case already).  Then to determine 
the set of plugins
>available the full class name of them should be 
listed in a file, or
>property, or some such construct to be read in.  Then 
as I mentioned in
>another email the syntax would be much like the 
following ->
>
>Class pluginClass = Class.forName
("cxtable.plugins.chess.Chess");
>Plugin pluginInstance = (Plugin) 
pluginClass.newInstance();
>pluginInstance.start();
>
>A note that any methods called on pluginInstance 
would have to be
>defined in the Plugin interface.  In this way you can 
fairly dynamically
>instantiate plugins, and could even allow them to 
live outside of the
>cxtable name space.  Also, only the Plugin interface 
would need to be
>imported (if not in the same package).
>
>Hope this was clear / helpful.
>
>--bjgm
>
>On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 09:33, David Scott Williams 
wrote:
>> Cool....  images would be cxtlogo.jpg?
>> 
>> OK...  That is great... I do have some questions...
>> 
>> If a "plugin" such as Chess "import 
cxtable.Plugin.*;"... how do I make it so that it can 
be loaded by the program if it is not in the same 
directory?  If it is in a deeper directory 
("plugins"), would it be looked for by the VM when it 
runs?
>> 
>> ~Dave
>> (go ahead and change the reply to be to cxtable-
de...@li...)
>> 
>> Borne Goodman-Mace wrote:
>> 
>> > I just finished 90% of the CVS move, and I think 
the chess information
>> > is at home, so I will try to move those files 
tonight.
>> >
>> > I made a /bin, /images, and /src tree.  All of 
the java source is under
>> > /src/cxtable/<package>.
>> >
>> > When making changes to the java files to support 
this layout, make sure
>> > to set the package name to be cxtable.<package>.
>> >
>> > --bjgm
>> >
>> > On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 17:10, Williams, David 
wrote:
>> > > This is what should be left....
>> > >
>> > > xDiceListener
>> > > xDicePanel
>> > > xDie
>> > > xDownloadLinlyn
>> > > xDownloadListener
>> > > xTimed
>> > > xTimer
>> > > xRoboticConverserx
>> > > TextAreaConsole
>> > > xReDirect
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > >From the above, xRoboticConverserx does not 
really have a place to exist anymore... (At one point, 
it allowed me to get some sleep while my alpha-tester 
played around with it.... He got off work at 3am my 
time... and by then... I was asleep...so the Robotic 
Converser looked for activity in the Chat windows, and 
replied with randomly selected messages...)
>> > >
>> > > The TextAreaConsole is some twiddling I did 
(stolen from a different project) for re-directing the 
output from stdout to the textarea...  In the case of 
some debugging tests I did recently, I -a- did not 
want it in a file, and -b- did not want it scrolling 
past at the speed of light in a batch window...so I 
incorporated this piece....don't really think of it as 
part of the project...  but it is used by the 
xReDirect piece.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > David Scott Williams
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