QTextCodecPlugin(3qt)

📦 version 3.3.8b, in fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 QTextCodecPlugin 💖 (from the 3qt manual, bestie)

🌸 NAME 🌸

QTextCodecPlugin — the abstract base class for making your own custom QTextCodec plugins. it's giving "build your own codec, but make it pluggable" ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

okay so first things first, the vibe check:

All the functions in this class are reentrant when Qt is built with thread support. 🧵✨

and you get to it like this:

#include <qtextcodecplugin.h>

👑 Public Members 👑

QTextCodecPlugin ()
~QTextCodecPlugin ()
virtual QStringList names () const = 0
virtual QTextCodec * createForName ( const QString & name ) = 0
virtual QValueList<int> mibEnums () const = 0
virtual QTextCodec * createForMib ( int mib ) = 0

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so QTextCodecPlugin is literally the abstract base for custom QTextCodec plugins. that's the whole thing. 💅

the text codec plugin is a simple plugin interface that makes it so easy to create custom text codecs that can get loaded dynamically into applications. plug and play, no cap. 🔌✨

here's how you actually write one, bestie: you subclass this base class, you reimplement the pure virtual functions names(), createForName(), mibEnums() and createForMib(), and then you export the class with the Q_EXPORT_PLUGIN macro. that's it. that's the recipe. 🧁 the Qt Plugins documentation has the full tea if you want it.

also, go peek at the IANA character-sets encoding file for more info on mime names and mib enums — it's the source of truth, iykyk.

See also Plugins. 🫶

🌈 MEMBER FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION 🌈

QTextCodecPlugin::QTextCodecPlugin ()

Constructs a text codec plugin. the way this gets invoked automatically by the Q_EXPORT_PLUGIN macro? iconic, you never have to think about it. ✨

QTextCodecPlugin::~QTextCodecPlugin ()

Destroys the text codec plugin. 🫧

you never have to call this explicitly, fr fr. Qt destroys a plugin automatically when it's no longer used. it handles itself, main character energy. 👑

QTextCodec * QTextCodecPlugin::createForMib ( int mib ) [pure virtual]

Creates a QTextCodec object for the mib enum mib. 🛠️

(go check the IANA character-sets encoding file for more info, it's all there)

See also mibEnums(). 💜

QTextCodec * QTextCodecPlugin::createForName ( const QString & name ) [pure virtual]

Creates a QTextCodec object for the codec called name. 🏷️

See also names(). 💜

QValueList<int> QTextCodecPlugin::mibEnums () const [pure virtual]

Returns the list of mib enums supported by this plugin. a whole little list of them. 📋✨

See also createForMib(). 💜

QStringList QTextCodecPlugin::names () const [pure virtual]

Returns the list of mime names supported by this plugin. yes bestie, the names. 🎀

See also createForName(). 💜

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

Copyright 1992-2007 Trolltech ASA, http://www.trolltech.com. See the license file included in the distribution for a complete license statement. 📜

💫 AUTHOR 💫

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💀 BUGS 💀

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if you find errors in this manual page, please report them to qt-bugs@trolltech.com. please include the name of the manual page (qtextcodecplugin.3qt) and the Qt version (3.3.8). thank you bestie, you're doing the lord's work. 🫶

anyway that's the whole page! 💅 this was brought to you by Trolltech AS, dated 2 February 2007, straight out of the QTextCodecPlugin(3qt) man page — mwah, go write a codec, you got this 🎀✨🦋

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