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   Program: ParaView
   Module:    pqPluginPathBehavior.h

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#ifndef pqPluginPathBehavior_h
#define pqPluginPathBehavior_h

#include <QObject>
#include "pqApplicationComponentsModule.h"

class pqServer;

/// @ingroup Behaviors
/// Applications may want to support auto-loading of plugins from certain
/// locations when a client-server connection is made. In case of ParaView,
/// PV_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable is used to locate such auto-load plugin
/// locations. This behavior encapsulates this functionality.
/// Currently, besides the environment_variable specified in the constructor,
/// this class is hard-coded to look at a few locations relative to the
/// executable. That can be changed in future allow application to customize
/// those locations as well.
/// TODO: This class is work in progress. Due to lack of time I am deferring
/// this until later. Currently pqPluginManager does this work, we need to move
/// the corresponding code to this behavior to allow better customization.
class PQAPPLICATIONCOMPONENTS_EXPORT pqPluginPathBehavior : public QObject
{
  Q_OBJECT
  typedef QObject Superclass;
public:
  pqPluginPathBehavior(const QString& environment_variable, QObject* parent=0);

protected slots:
  void loadDefaultPlugins(pqServer*);

private:
  Q_DISABLE_COPY(pqPluginPathBehavior)
};

#endif


