[Kde-pim] KMail: "smart paste" of email addresses

[David Faure]

On Thursday 20 December 2007, Thomas McGuire wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tuesday 18 December 2007, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Monday 17 December 2007, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > > On Sunday 16 December 2007, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > > Since the AddresseeLineEdit in libkdepim used this (i.e.
> > > > reimplementing KLineEdit::paste(), KLineEdit::insert()) to implement
> > > > the so called "smart paste" feature, it no longer works.
> > > >
> > > > [..]
> > > >
> > > > Any preferences which way I should investigate further, or maybe any
> > > > other option I am overlooking?
> > >
> > > It's always possible to reimplement the *Event() methods, i.e.
> > > keyPressEvent(), and the mouse events. Just make sure that you handle
> > > all shortcuts of KStandardAction::paste().
> >
> > Right, but the text still has to be intercepted somewhere and the
> > contextmenu paste would also have to be handled.
> >
> > Kind of weird that the widget setters are no longer virtual.
> I unfortunately can't contribute an answer, because I also don't know a proper 
> way to fix this.
> 
> What concerns me is that there are suddenly methods in Qt that are no longer 
> virtual; I guess these kind of errors can be found in other places, too.
> Anybody knows if there is a compiler warning for this? It should warn if 
> non-virtual methods are overridden in a subclass. This would be very helpful 
> (like the overload-virtual warnings).

Not implemented yet.
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17920 
"add __attribute__((reimpl)) as a replacement for the (optional) virtual keyword for reimplementations of virtual functions"
  see also http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n2108.html


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David Faure, faure at kde.org, dfaure at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
KDE/KOffice developer, Qt consultancy projects
Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, Platform-independent software solutions
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