[Adium-devl] controller classes

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Jul 24, 2006, at 12:35 AM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> On Jul 23, 2006, at 16:26:23, Kevin Wojniak wrote:
>> Shouldn't all the controller classes be placed inside  
>> Adium.framework? For my Xfire plugin I have to compile those into  
>> my app, which doesn't really make sense and could cause major  
>> issues every time there's a new Adium update.
>
> What you can do is use -undefined dynamic_lookup when linking your  
> plug-in, which will make the linker say “OK, it'll get them at  
> runtime”. At runtime, of course, all those classes already exist  
> because Adium was loaded first.
>
> Another way would be NSClassFromString, but then you don't get the  
> benefit of the compiler giving you “unknown method ‘fooo’” warnings.

Was going to reply with both suggestions.

I can't think of a good reason right now not to make Adium.framework  
be the full public interface to Adium, though, removing the need for  
an undefined flag at all.  Can anyone?

-Evan

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