This section describes how you can integrate your own code into XWorkplace.
Since XWorkplace is now a Netlabs project on the Netlabs CVS server, certain
rules must be followed so that the whole thing still works even though several
developers might be adding stuff.
With XWorkplace V0.9.0, I have restructured the whole directory and
makefile system to allow for extending XWorkplace. In any case, the idea is
that all XWorkplace classes will reside in one single DLL, XFLDR.DLL
,
but should be capable of being registered independently.
Basically, there are two situations which you need to tell apart:
- You can add a new class to XWorkplace. That is,
you wish to hook your code into the WPS, but XWorkplace doesn't have a class for
this yet. This situation applies both if you wish to replace a standard WPS class
(example: the spooler class, WPSpool) which XWorkplace doesn't replace yet, or if
you wish to create an all new class. (This only makes a difference at install time,
whether the install program will replace a class.)
- You may choose to extend an existing XWorkplace class
(either an XWorkplace replacement for a default WPS class, e.g. XFolder, or a newly
introduced XWorkplace class, e.g. XFldWPS -- the "Workplace Shell" object).
This is much simpler, because you can build on existing code.