which KMainWindow?

[Alexander Dymo]

On Tuesday 13 December 2005 02:39, Alan Ezust wrote:
> I'm having a difficult time understanding which MainWindow class is
> being used where.
> In particular, I use the "tabbed pages" mode, which has some dock
> windows with tab panes inside them.
> Which class is that?
> I noticed a bunch of "mainwindow" classes which have no documentation
> on the top.
> What is SimpleMainWindow? If DMainWindow is the "simplified idea
> mode", what is the "full idea mode"?

Oh, that's a tough question :)
There are two hierarchies of main window in KDevelop,
first is

KMainWindow
KParts::MainWindow
DMainWindow
SimpleMainWindow

which is used for "Simple Ideal Mode" (should be default in KDevAssistant).

and second is
 
KMainWindow
KParts::MainWindow
KMdiMainFrm
NewMainWindow

which is used for all other UI modes. Tabbed UI mode uses NewMainWindow
but all functionality is provided by KMdiMainFrm which is from kdelibs/kmdi.
For KDE4 we will not use kmdi-based one for sure.

> What is the classname the docked tabbed widget full of tool views?
> Where is it created?
The thing you're asking is probably KDockWidget class. It's created
somewhere in kmdi library code but the widget itself is from kdelibs/kdeui.

> Also, is there a tool or a way to export and import the shortcuts in
> KDevelop?
No, but this should be done globally at kdelibs level. Then KDevelop will have
the ability to import/export shortcuts.