outputwidget

[F@lk Brettschneider]

Kuba Ober wrote:

>Hi,
>after seeing so many problems with outputwidget, I've decided to do a
> rewrite. I hope for it to be finished in next week.
>It is an extremely simple widget that displays text stuff in a font of your
>choice, allows changing colors, and lets you get the character position (row,
>column) that was clicked by the mouse. It also allows highlighting between a
>starting (row, column) and ending (row, column).
>It doesn't allow changing of the text.
>I'm still tweaking the data representation for word-wraping so that it will
> be able to efficiently handle paragraphs of arbitrary length (the algorithm
> is dumb, so there's not too much to improve there).
>The code seems to be *a lot* shorter and simpler than Qt sources. Actually,
>I'm not basing on qt sources at all -- I tried simplifying them, but it
>seemed too much hassle.
>The whole thing uses qt2 api so it should work equally well in kde2 and kde3.
>I'll keep you posted on the progress.
>
My opinion:
Do not do this.
KDevelop-2.1.x doesn't contain rewrites or new features.
Put your effort on KDevelop-3.

Thanks anyway,
F at lk