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+---------------------------------------------------------
+ Kexi Naming Conventions
+
+ These rules apply to Kexi Team developers
+ There are also guidelines for future naming decissions.
+
+ Started: 2003-10-17
+ Copyright (C) 2003 Kexi Team
+ Kexi home page: http://www.kexi-project.org/
+---------------------------------------------------
+
+1. Namespaces
+To simplify class names and make these names shorter, we use namespaces.
+
+1.1. KexiDB namespace
+
+This denotes KexiDB module. All classes from kexidb/ directory are in KexiDB
+namespace.KexiDB-compatible database drivers (from kexidb/drivers/
+subdirectories are not in this KexiDB namespace.
+
+
+1.2. KexiWindow ???
+
+#TODO
+
+2. Directories
+
+plugins/<subdirs>
+ any plugins like Kexi dialogs for table altering, query desinger, etc.;
+ one subdirectory per plugin; each subdirectory is a KDE module
+
+widgets/<subdirs>
+ any widgets that are not dependent on core nor kexidb, thus reusable
+ in other projects; one subdirectory per widget; all subdirectories are linked
+ together with static compilation to single common library
+
+3rdparty/<subdirs>
+ any modules that can be considered as external (not necessarily optional)
+
+
+3. Creating documentation
+
+- Doxygen (www.doxygen.org) is used for generating Kexi developer documentation.
+- default target directory of these docs in html format is: doc/html for all sources
+ and doc/kexidb/html for kexidb-only docs
+- one step (..) up from mentioned dirs are places for .doxygen project files used
+ for docs generating
+- Single-line comments are created begginning with: //!
+- Multi-line comments are created begginning with /*! or /**
+- Style of comments (/*! of /**) for given file should be preserved
+
+Example 3.1: Comments for non-void functions, adding information about parameters:
+
+/*! Displays value of \a x.
+ \return true if displaying is successfull */
+bool display(int x);
+
+Notes for example:
+-\return special Doxygen's tag is used to describe that we return
+something in the method (\returns will not work for Doxygen!).
+-Clause should be started from capital letter and terminated with a dot.
+-"\a" special tag should be used before inserting argument names (names are
+equal to these from the method's definition) - the names will be therefore
+highlighted by Doxygen.
+
+-For more sophisticated methods (with more arguments), you can as well
+use \param tag, e.g.:
+
+/*!
+\param x horizontal position
+\param y vertical position
+\param col color of the box
+*/
+
+-Methods/functions should be documented in header files (.h), not in implementation
+ files. This allows easier inspection for users of the source code.
+-Comments from implementation files can be turned into
+ additional documentation, if really needed (when we use "/*!")
+ and this also will be included to generated docs if Doxygen project has enabled appropriate
+ option for doing this.
+-Classes should be also documented -comments put just as the lines
+ before "class keyword.
+
+-to add reference to similar or related function, use \sa tag, e.g.:
+/*! blablabla
+ \sa bleble
+*/
+
+-to mark a code fragment that someting is TO DO, you can use \todo tag, e.g.:
+
+/*! \todo (js) it is so hard to implement!
+*/
+
+-example above shows that adding e.g. own nick inside the brackets what can help
+to recognise who marked given fragment.
+
+4. Indentation
+4.1 We can use the rule as in the rest of KDE code.
+example:
+ QString objectName(); //wrong
+ QString objectName(); //ok
+rule: dont use tabs between words.
+
+4.2 To avoid many indentation levels, we can use:
+
+void mymethod()
+{
+ if (!something)
+ return;
+ if(!something_else && .....)
+ return
+ do_something();
+}
+
+ instead of:
+
+void mymethod()
+{
+ if (something) {
+ if(something_else && .....) {
+ do_something;
+ }
+ }
+}
+
+This is good, because made qt and kde sources readable.
+
+4.3 Indentation within classes declaration
+
+class MyClass {
+ public:
+ MyClass();
+ void method();
+ protected:
+};
+
+ANYWAY: we use indentation.