Hi,
Just to let you know I tried to figure out how to do the less work, but finally I decided to start from scratch.
I will use C# and .NET Framework to made the code as easy as possible. The VIDE will work as follows:
1. It will take a “environment” descriptor written in XML to tell the application what kind of resources it should read and which plugins will be loaded. So VIDE will be a plugin/resource manager…
2. The application will instance the plugin
3. The plugin will have its own descriptor in XML to know the messages to send or receive (read below)
4. Both App and plugin will share a common procedure called “control” that will be the communication pipeline
5. According to their descriptors, messages will be available to interact even with other plugins
6. Each plugin knows how to behave so could be resource compilers, displays, morphers, and even virtual processors, memories and IO devices to attach an emulator if desired
The following diagram explains this idea:
Finally, all plugins and application will share a common package called VIDE with a toolkit of functions to share.
Thats my idea. 😀 Let me know your comments.
