Plugin Class Reference

#include <plugins.h>

Inheritance diagram for Plugin:

Public Member Functions
virtual bool	loadPlugin ()=0
virtual void	unloadPlugin ()=0
PluginType	getType () const
const char *	getName () const
template<class T >
T &	get () const
virtual Common::Path	getFileName () const

Protected Attributes
PluginObject *	_pluginObject
PluginType	_type

Detailed Description

Abstract base class for the plugin system. Subclasses for this can be used to wrap both static and dynamic plugins. This class refers to a plugin which may or may not be loaded in memory.

Member Function Documentation

getType()

PluginType Plugin::getType

(

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const

The following functions query information from the plugin object once it's loaded into memory.

getFileName()

virtual Common::Path Plugin::getFileName ( ) const

inlinevirtual

The getFileName() function gets the name of the plugin file for those plugins that have files (ie. not static). It doesn't require the plugin object to be loaded into memory, unlike getName()

Reimplemented in DynamicPlugin.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• base/plugins.h