KLCDNumber

[Jason Mott]

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Yes, this is the reason I'm bringing this up before I just jump into 
development. I want to see if there is even a need for a generalized (more) 
configureable QLCDNumber widget -- and if so what sort of functionality would 
be most useful.

Thanks for your input, it makes a lot of sense. Once I looked at the Qt code, 
I'm thinking extending may not work very well for adding 
subscripts/superscripts -- as it would be much more efficient to do it when 
the numbers are rendered. So -- either I may have to start over with a new 
widget, or I may need to see if Trolltech takes patches (are there any 
Troltech people on the this list? Do you take patches?).

On Thursday 12 December 2002 07:41 am, Hans Meine wrote:
> Jason Mott <kdedevel at jasonmott.com> writes:
> > Perhaps an even more generic way to add such a feature would be to add
> > support for subscript/superscript text to be defined. Then the user of
> > the class can put any abbreviation they wanted (and even make sub classes
> > that behave specifically -- like a digital clock that displays am/pm). I
> > would say since this should be generic, the client code should be able to
> > specify relative size and position of the added text.
>
> MHO (actually, my experience): Don't try to generalize too much in the
> first run when you don't have seen enough applications and their needs
> (it gets more complicated than necessary and might still miss some
> points).
>
> And if you make specification of positions possible, make them
> relative as far as possible (in the sense of layout management, maybe
> you can even re-use the Qt one by making your widget a compound one),
> and try to make points the unit (translating into pixels taking the
> current screen's DPI delivered by the X server into account)! Imagine
> users running your calc on 75dpi and 200dpi displays (otherwise on the
> latter, they will have problems with reading the calc's display).
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