KMessage/KMessageHandler: a core/ui seperation for displaying message.

Michaël Larouche michael.larouche at kdemail.net
Sat Jun 3 20:22:55 BST 2006


Le May 28, 2006 13:06, Michaël Larouche a écrit :
> I rencently wanted to make a notification framework for Kopete4 to replace
> all the KMessageBox in the code. Then Olivier Goffart remembered me of the
> thread "core/ui separation".
>
> So I've made the required classes to separate the message display.
>
> kdecore: KMessage and KMessageHandler
> KMessage is the "frontend" API static class developers use the display a
> message. You must supply a KMessageHandler to work properly.
>
> KMessageHandler is the abstract class for the message handle.
>
> kdeui: KMessageBoxMessageHandler and KPassivePopupMessageHandler
> Those are obvious, there are KMessageHandler implementation that developers
> can use right away.
>
> So it is used like
>
> KMessage::setMessageHandler( new KMessageBoxHandler(this) );
> KMessage::message(  KMessage::Information, i18n("Information"),
> i18n("Caption") );
>
> Applications can develop custom KMessageHandler for fine grained control in
> their application, like amaroK could use it with their KDE::StatusBar
> class.
>
> The patch include:
> -KMessage,KMessageHandler,KMessageBoxMessageHandler,KPassivePopupMessageHan
>dler -KMessage_Test in kdeui/tets

Here is an updated patch according to feedback I got.

I removed shortMessage() from API.

Please tell me what you would want that I add to KMessage API.
-- 
Michaël Larouche
KDE developer working on Kopete, Kamefu, Solid...on dial-up :P
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