Why do all KMessageBox methods call exec()?

[Waldo Bastian]

On Thursday 07 October 2004 00:45, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> I need a KMessageBox with a timeout -- that is, I want to be able to do
> something like this:
>
> QTimer *timeout = new QTimer(this);
> KMessageBox *box = KMessageBox::questionYesNoCancel(...);
> connect(timeout,SIGNAL(timeout()),box,SLOT(cancel()));
> timeout->start(20000,true);
> box->exec();
>
> OK, I can understand that the question* and similar static methods call
> exec(), but what about createKMessageBox()? I would expect that it creates
> the message box -- no more than that
>
> The attached patch adds a NoExec option to the message box, so that you can
> get createKMessageBox() to behave like I would expect it to - creates a
> message box and does nothing else. Seem reasonable?

Fine for me.

Cheers,
Waldo
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