[PATCH] text in KStatusBar changing resizes KMainWindow

[Frerich Raabe]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 03:21:29PM +0000, Richard Smith wrote:
> If the text in a KStatusBar is changed to be longer than the length of the 
> text box, the window containing it resizes to accomodate the text. Currently 
> Konqueror and Kopete work around this with KSqueezedTextLabels. The attached 
> patch solves the problem at its core, by deriving KStatusBarLabel from 
> KSqueezedTextLabel.

I'm not sure it's always desireable not to resize the window in case the
text in the status bar gets changed, so this seems a little like overkill
to me.

Instead of inheriting KSqueezedTextLabel, maybe you could add a "squeezeText"
property to it. If it's true, KSqueezedTextLabel's setText() and resizeEvent()
methods could use KStringHandler::cPixelSqueeze to make the text fit into
the current bounding rectangle.

- Frerich

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