KReport/API Changes

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Revision as of 08:59, 29 July 2015 by Jstaniek (talk | contribs)

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This is a design document


Design creation

Started: Jstaniek (talk) 08:59, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

The goal: Make it possible to create, modify, open and save KReport designs without touching the designer API.

New classes and relations between them proposed:

  • KReportDesign: setContent(xml) loads, toString() saves, modelled after
    • We don't use KReportDocument name for this because actual document is: design+data
  • KReportDocument: design+data so it's more or less takes KReportDesign and KReportData args.
    • KReportDocument can be rendered on a KReportWriter
  • KReportWriter is equivalent of QImageWriter, can use files or QIODevices
    • Inherit KReportWriter to implement what we so far call 'renderers'
    • KReportDocument+KReportWriter is like QPainter+QPaintDevice
[KReportDesign]
              >--builds-[KReportDocument]-->-is-used-in-[KReportWriter]--writes-to--[File/Screen/Printer]
[ KReportData ]