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author | Philip Kaufmann <phil.kaufmann@t-online.de> | 2013-04-03 13:59:39 +0200 |
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committer | Philip Kaufmann <phil.kaufmann@t-online.de> | 2013-04-03 13:59:39 +0200 |
commit | c26a0f410e4f3ed95022532131996632b3e620ef (patch) | |
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diff --git a/multiwallet-qt.txt b/multiwallet-qt.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 8394080db0..0000000000 --- a/multiwallet-qt.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,53 +0,0 @@ -Multiwallet Qt Development and Integration Strategy -=================================================== - -In order to support loading of multiple wallets in bitcoin-qt, a few changes in the UI architecture will be needed. -Fortunately, only four of the files in the existing project are affected by this change. - -Three new classes have been implemented in three new .h/.cpp file pairs, with much of the functionality that was previously -implemented in the BitcoinGUI class moved over to these new classes. - -The two existing files most affected, by far, are bitcoingui.h and bitcoingui.cpp, as the BitcoinGUI class will require -some major retrofitting. - -Only requiring some minor changes is bitcoin.cpp. - -Finally, three new headers and source files will have to be added to bitcoin-qt.pro. - -Changes to class BitcoinGUI ---------------------------- -The principal change to the BitcoinGUI class concerns the QStackedWidget instance called centralWidget. -This widget owns five page views: overviewPage, transactionsPage, addressBookPage, receiveCoinsPage, and sendCoinsPage. - -A new class called *WalletView* inheriting from QStackedWidget has been written to handle all renderings and updates of -these page views. In addition to owning these five page views, a WalletView also has a pointer to a WalletModel instance. -This allows the construction of multiple WalletView objects, each rendering a distinct wallet. - -A second class called *WalletStack*, also inheriting from QStackedWidget, has been written to handle switching focus between -different loaded wallets. In its current implementation, as a QStackedWidget, only one wallet can be viewed at a time - -but this can be changed later. - -A third class called *WalletFrame* inheriting from QFrame has been written as a container for embedding all wallet-related -controls into BitcoinGUI. At present it just contains a WalletStack instance and does little more than passing on messages -from BitcoinGUI to the WalletStack, which in turn passes them to the individual WalletViews. It is a WalletFrame instance -that takes the place of what used to be centralWidget in BitcoinGUI. The purpose of this class is to allow future -refinements of the wallet controls with minimal need for further modifications to BitcoinGUI, thus greatly simplifying -merges while reducing the risk of breaking top-level stuff. - -Changes to bitcoin.cpp ----------------------- -bitcoin.cpp is the entry point into bitcoin-qt, and as such, will require some minor modifications to provide hooks for -multiple wallet support. Most importantly will be the way it instantiates WalletModels and passes them to the -singleton BitcoinGUI instance called window. Formerly, BitcoinGUI kept a pointer to a single instance of a WalletModel. -The initial change required is very simple: rather than calling window.setWalletModel(&walletModel); we perform the -following two steps: - -window.addWallet("~Default", &walletModel); -window.setCurrentWallet("~Default"); - -The string parameter is just an arbitrary name given to the default wallet. It's been prepended with a tilde to avoid name -collisions in the future with additional wallets. - -The shutdown call window.setWalletModel(0) has also been removed. In its place is now: - -window.removeAllWallets(); |