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

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Sunday 16 December 2007, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> since a respective generic question on k-c-d got no reply for about a
> week now, I take it that it is no longer possible to intercept text
> going into a QLineEdit or its subclasses.
>
> 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.
>
> From my somewhat limited investigation the only reasonable way to
> implement this now is to use a QValidator on the line edit and let it
> "fixup" the string.
> However, since intercepting paste() doesn't work any longer either,
> it could only be turned on/off on middle-mouse-button pastes, it will
> probably have to work continuously, i.e. not just when inserting text
> through pasting.
>
> Another option, though not totally equivalent in behavior, might be
> to implement this in the completion handler. Not totally equivalent
> because pasting doesn't seem to trigger completion by itself, but
> this might depend on the completion mode setting.
>
> 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().


Regards,
Ingo
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