KmPlot sliders usage and associated bug

[Anne-Marie Mahfouf]

On 03/04/2012 06:56 PM, todd rme wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Anne-Marie Mahfouf
> <annemarie.mahfouf at free.fr>  wrote:
>> On 03/04/2012 09:02 AM, Rahul Sharma wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I looked into the view.cpp updatesliders() function, and I have arrived at
>> the conclusion that the variable needSliderWindow does have a use here. I
>> think that the control if() statement, in which the bool variable
>> needSliderWindow is set to true, it checks whether the Slider checkbox in
>> the left panel (function tab) is checked or not, depending on which it sets
>> the checkable bool of m_menuSliderAction to true.
>>
>> And I think the intention was that when the Slider checkbox is checked, the
>> slider window should pop-up and when it is unchecked slider window should
>> hide.
>>
>> So the first thing would be to fix this.
>> Should closing the Sliders window uncheck the Slider checkbox? What should
>> happen when the Sliders window is closed?
>> Also why is there the possibility to check Slider when there is no Slider
>> use? Like in a function witn no parameter.
>>
>> Anne-Marie
>>
>>
>> And as you were saying there is no need to have that as a toggle. That can
>> be done in another way and just setting m_menuSliderAction->setchecked(true)
>> does not fulfill the aim here.
>>
>> And one more thing I wanted to point out here is about my patch. Actually,
>> when I looked into the code of the ksliderwindow.cpp, I found out that in
>> order to handle the check of the m_menuSliderAction there is a slot called
>> closeevent which emits a windowclosed signal when the window is closed,
>> which is only called when closeevent is called. But the close button of the
>> slider window uses a done() (perhaps inheritted from QDialog as far as I
>> remember) to close the window which does not emit a closeevent and the the
>> m_menuSliderAction becomes faulty, so I just fixed that.
>>
>> -Regards
>>   Rahul Sharma
>>   (NUM_1 on irc.freenode.net)
> Slightly off-topic, but why is this is a window and not a dock panel?
> Doc panels can be pulled off and used as separate windows, but they
> can also be integrated into the GUI.
>
We are trying to find out the use of this Sliders dialog. As I said, it 
is not needed in plots without parameters so a dock for this would take 
space without any purpose. Dialogs do not have the same scope than docks 
and probably only a fraction of users make use of the sliders.

Anne-Marie