GUI framework in kde4

[Hamish Rodda]

On Monday 03 July 2006 09:51, Andras Mantia wrote:
> On Monday 03 July 2006 10:35, Hamish Rodda wrote:
> > You define the actions either in your code at runtime, or in designer
> > at creation time, and then you can open a file at runtime which
> > describes where to put that element, and this will be taken care of
> > by the framework.  The file's format may be similar or the same to
> > .ui files, but it will work at runtime.
> >
> > Does that answer your question?
>
> I'm not sure. What I need to know is that if the toolbar and actions are
> created in the code can they be saved and restored from the .ui file
> without needing a mainwindow in the .ui for them? As I understand if
> you work in designer, you must have a mainwindow to create actions and
> toolbars. What I need is something like this in the current code:
> - load an XML file describing the toolbar
> <!DOCTYPE kpartgui SYSTEM "kpartgui.dtd">
> <kpartgui name="quanta" version="2">
>   <ToolBar tabname="CSS" noMerge="1" name="css" >
>     <text>CSS</text>
>     <Action name="insert_css" />
>     <Action name="tag_color" />
>   </ToolBar>
> </kpartgui>
> - create a KXMLGUIClient from the above XML file
> - create the actions from there in the code and insert them to the
> actionCollection of the created KXMLGUIClient
> - add the KXMLGUIClient to the user interface itself (show the toolbar)
> with guiFactory()->addClient(toolbarGUI);
>
> And the other way around (remove from the UI, save the XML and get the
> information of what actions were on the toolbar itself).

Simon and I are working on an api right now which will be the alternative to 
using .ui files... it will do all this and more ;)  Hopefully you will see 
code soon.

Cheers,
Hamish.
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