Patch, WaitCursor during factorial

Raphael Kubo da Costa kubito at gmail.com
Wed Apr 7 02:03:33 CEST 2010


On Thursday 01 April 2010 16:06:38 eike lange wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> As reported in Bug 139397, kcalc takes long time to calculate the
> factorial of a big number. If numbers are big enough, kcalc freezes.
> IMHO, the user needs some visual feedback.
> 
> The patch attached to this mail adds a WaitCursor during this long
> operation, which does not disturb too much, if the operation is in fact
> short.
> 
> I could add a MessageDialog, which warns the user, if the input is
> larger than maybe 1,000,000 (configurable) or just add a ToolTip to the
> factorial button which shows, that this op may take long time.
> 
> Eike

Hey there,

IMO, the patch would look cleaner if you just called 
QApplication::setOverrideCursor(QCursor(Qt::WaitCursor)) and 
QApplication::restoreOverrideCursor(), and added the appropriate #includes.

Does kcalc currently have a maintainer?


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