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QNPInstance Class Reference

The QNPInstance class provides a QObject that is a Web-browser plugin. More...

This class is part of the Qt Netscape Extension.

#include <qnp.h>

Inherits QObject.

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Detailed Description

This class is defined in the Qt Netscape Extension, which can be found in the qt/extensions directory. It is not included in the main Qt API.

The QNPInstance class provides a QObject that is a Web-browser plugin.

Deriving from QNPInstance creates an object that represents a single <EMBED> tag in an HTML document.

The QNPInstance is responsible for creating an appropriate QNPWidget window if required (not all plugins have windows), and for interacting with the input/output facilities intrinsic to plugins.

Note that there is absolutely no guarantee regarding the order in which functions are called. Sometimes the browser will call newWindow() first, at other times, newStreamCreated() will be called first (assuming the <EMBED> tag has a SRC parameter).

None of Qt's GUI functionality may be used until after the first call to newWindow(). This includes any use of QPaintDevice (ie. QPixmap, QWidget, and all subclasses), QApplication, anything related to QPainter (QBrush, etc.), fonts, QMovie, QToolTip, etc. Useful classes which specifically can be used are QImage, QFile, and QBuffer.

This restriction can easily be accommodated by structuring your plugin so that the task of the QNPInstance is to gather data, while the task of the QNPWidget is to provide a graphical interface to that data,

Member Type Documentation

QNPInstance::InstanceMode

This enum type provides Qt-style names for three #defines in npapi.h:

QNPInstance::Reason

QNPInstance::StreamMode

Member Function Documentation

QNPInstance::QNPInstance () [protected]

Creates a QNPInstance.

Can only be called from within a derived class created within QNPlugin::newInstance().

QNPInstance::~QNPInstance ()

Called when the plugin instance is about to disappear.

const char * QNPInstance::arg ( const char * name ) const

Returns the value of the named arguments, or 0 if no argument called name appears in the <EMBED> tag of this instance. If the argument appears, but has no value assigned, the empty string is returned. In summary:

Tag Result
<EMBED ...> arg("FOO") == 0
<EMBED FOO ...> arg("FOO") == ""
<EMBED FOO=BAR ...> arg("FOO") == "BAR"

int QNPInstance::argc () const

Returns the number of arguments to the instance. Note that you should not normally rely on the ordering of arguments, and also note that the SGML specification does not permit multiple arguments with the same name.

See also arg() and argn().

const char * QNPInstance::argn ( int i ) const

Returns the name of the i-th argument.

See also argc() and argv().

const char * QNPInstance::argv ( int i ) const

Returns the value of the i-th argument.

\as argc(), arg()

void * QNPInstance::getJavaPeer () const

Returns the Java object associated with the plug-in instance, an object of the plug-in's Java class, or 0 if the plug-in does not have a Java class, Java is disabled, or an error occurred.

The return value is actually a jref we use void* so as to avoid burdening plugins which do not require Java.

See also QNPlugin::getJavaClass() and QNPlugin::getJavaEnv().

void QNPInstance::getURL ( const char * url, const char * window = 0 )

Requests that the url be retrieved and sent to the named window. See Netscape's JavaScript documentation for an explanation of window names.

void QNPInstance::getURLNotify ( const char * url, const char * window = 0, void * data = 0 )

Print the instance full-page. By default, this returns FALSE, causing the browser to call the (embedded) print() function instead. Requests that the given url be retrieved and sent to the named window. See Netscape's JavaScript documentation for an explanation of window names. Passes the arguments including data to NPN_GetURLNotify.

Netscape: NPN_GetURLNotify method

InstanceMode QNPInstance::mode () const

Returns the mode of the plugin.

QNPStream * QNPInstance::newStream ( const char * mimetype, const char * window, bool as_file = FALSE )

This function is under development and is subject to change.

This function is not tested.

Requests the creation of a new data stream from the plug-in. The mime type and window are passed in mimetype and window. as_file holds the AsFileOnly flag. It is an interface to the NPN_NewStream function of the Netscape Plugin API.

bool QNPInstance::newStreamCreated ( QNPStream *, StreamMode & smode ) [virtual]

This function is called when a new stream has been created. The instance should return TRUE if it accepts the processing of the stream. If the instance requires the stream as a file, it should set smode to AsFileOnly, in which case the data will be delivered some time later to the streamAsFile() function. Otherwise, the data will be delivered in chunks to the write() function which must consume at least as much data as was returned by the most recent call to writeReady().

Note that the AsFileOnly method is not supported by Netscape 2.0 and MSIE 3.0.

The default implementation accepts any stream.

QNPWidget * QNPInstance::newWindow () [virtual]

Called at most once, at some time after the QNPInstance is created. If the plugin requires a window, this function should return a derived class of QNPWidget that provides the required interface.

Example: grapher/grapher.cpp.

void QNPInstance::notifyURL ( const char * url, Reason r, void * notifyData ) [virtual]

This function is under development and is subject to change.

This function is not tested.

Called whenever a url is notified after a call to NPN_GetURLNotify with notifyData. The reason is given in r.

It is an encapsulation of the NPP_URLNotify function of the Netscape Plugin API.

See also: Netscape: NPP_URLNotify method

void QNPInstance::postURL ( const char * url, const char * window, uint len, const char * buf, bool file )

This function is under development and is subject to change.

This function is not tested.

It is an interface to the NPN_PostURL function of the Netscape Plugin API.

Passes url, window, buf, len, and file to NPN_PostURL.

void QNPInstance::print ( QPainter * ) [virtual]

This function is under development and is subject to change.

This function is not tested.

Print the instance embedded in a page.

It is an encapsulation of the NPP_Print function of the Netscape Plugin API.

bool QNPInstance::printFullPage () [virtual]

This function is under development and is subject to change.

This function is not tested.

It is an encapsulation of the NPP_Print function of the Netscape Plugin API.

void QNPInstance::status ( const char * msg )

Sets the status message in the browser containing this instance to msg.

void QNPInstance::streamAsFile ( QNPStream *, const char * fname ) [virtual]

Called when a stream is delivered as a single file called fname rather than as chunks. This may be simpler for a plugin to deal with, but precludes any incremental behavior.

Note that the AsFileOnly method is not supported by Netscape 2.0 and MSIE 3.0.

See also newStreamCreated() and newStream().

void QNPInstance::streamDestroyed ( QNPStream * ) [virtual]

Called when a stream is destroyed. At this point, the stream may be complete() and okay(). If it is not okay(), then an error has occurred. If it is okay(), but not complete(), then the user has cancelled the transmission: do not give an error message in this case.

const char * QNPInstance::userAgent () const

Returns the user agent (browser name) containing this instance.

QNPWidget * QNPInstance::widget ()

Returns the plugin window created by newWindow(), if any.

int QNPInstance::write ( QNPStream *, int offset, int len, void * buffer ) [virtual]

Called when incoming data is available for processing by the instance. The instance must consume at least the amount that it returned in the most recent call to writeReady(), but it may consume up to the amount given by len. buffer is the data available for consumption. The offset argument is merely an informational value indicating the total amount of data that has been consumed in prior calls.

This function should return the amount of data actually consumed.

Example: grapher/grapher.cpp.

int QNPInstance::writeReady ( QNPStream * ) [virtual]

Returns the minimum amount of data the instance is willing to receive from the given stream.

The default returns a very large value.

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