config-aware widgets (was: Re: Experiences with KDE-CVS at LinuxWorldExpo)

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 11:59:51PM +0100, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> >2. Config-aware widgets
> >4. A ConfigureDialog class that takes care of handling apply, cancel and
> >"set defaults"
> 
> I wonder if (2) could be handled with (4) as well, as Josef suggests.
> That would make things a lot easier. You get problems when you want to
> disable widgets as part of the GUI behavior as well as due to its
> immutable state,
>
exactly.

> but maybe it works if we can reserve disable/enable for GUI behavior
> and read-only to indicate immutable.
> 
yep, but i know exactly one widget type, that has a read-only state
currently: qlineedit & friends. however, there is hope that the trolls
implement a generic read-only widget attribute in qt 3.2, so we would
not have this problem any more if we adhere to the above rule.

greetings

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