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diff --git a/doc/multiwallet-qt.md b/doc/multiwallet-qt.md deleted file mode 100644 index 3caab81807..0000000000 --- a/doc/multiwallet-qt.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,48 +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. - -Two new classes have been implemented in two 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, two 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 *WalletFrame* inheriting from QFrame has been written as a container for embedding all wallet-related -controls into BitcoinGUI. At present it contains the WalletView instances for the wallets and does little more than passing on messages -from BitcoinGUI to the currently selected WalletView. 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(); |