Development/Tutorials/Games/Palapeli Slicers

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Creating a Palapeli pattern
Tutorial Series   Programming with the Palapeli API
Previous   Introduction to KDE4 programming
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Further Reading   Palapeli::Pattern, Palapeli::PatternConfiguration
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Abstract

This tutorial shows you how to create a pattern for Palapeli, that is: a plugin for the Palapeli libraries that describes an algorithm to split an image into pieces.

The pattern we will be constructing is quite easy: It splits an image into two equally sized pieces.

Structure

A pattern plugin consists of two classes. The first one (derived from Palapeli::PatternConfiguration) tells Palapeli what features this pattern plugin has and which configuration values it needs. The second one (derived from Palapeli::Pattern) does the actual slicing.

The code