KClearableLineEdit

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

Aaron J. Seigo said the following, On 2006-08-23 09:27:

> attached is a class that implements a line edit with an embedded clear button. 
> the intention is to replace all those lineedits with the clear button next to 
> them. why?
> 
> a) they currently look ugly by breaking layouts out
> b) they unnecessarily increase the visual noise with More Buttons
> c) being external to the line edit they are currently not very well associated 
> with the widget they act upon.
> 
> the only downside to this new class (besides bugs i am not aware of and some 
> unwanted flickering on resizing, all of which are fixables as issues arise) 
> is that i'm not sure what the accessibility impact would be; worst case is 
> that this class would need to export via QAccessible that it has a clear 
> function? not sure ... 
> 
> i also implemented this as a subclass of KLineEdit rather than embed the 
> functionality into KLineEdit since KLineEdit is already a pretty hairy beast 
> and i didn't want to add to that.

Nice improvement. One note: what if I have already reimplemented KLineEdit (or 
  want to add the 'clear' button to aneditable combo box or date/time edit? 
Maybe we can _also_ have an interface that can be inherited, thus delivering 
the "clearing" functionality?

Example use:

class KClearableLineEdit : public KLineEdit, KClearableInterface

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