Cube GUI Plugin User Guide

Contents

• Copyright
• Abstract
• Cube Plugin Types
  • Context sensitive Cube Plugins
  • Context Free Plugins
• Step by step example for CubePlugin
  • Qt project file
  • SimpleExample.h
  • SimpleExample.cpp
• Step by step example for ContextFreePlugin
  • Qt project file
  • ContextFreePluginExample.h
  • ContextFreeExample.cpp
• Developing plugins
  • Further examples
    • ValueView example
    • Extensive example
  • Problems loading plugins
• Usage of the Cube Plugin API
  • Functions to show information provided by the plugin
    • Add a new Tab next to the System tree
    • Add a context menu to a tree view
    • Create a toolbar
    • Define a shortcut
    • Create an additional colormap
    • Create an alternative value view
  • Parallel execution of compute-intensive tasks
  • Server side plugins