Updating name for an IDocumentation

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:

> On Tuesday 01 December 2009 23:13:40 Aleix Pol wrote:
> > I guess it's fine. you can create a patch and send it to the review
> board.
> > We can discuss it there.
> > IDocumentation is thought to be autocontented. I guess this is just a
> > problem when you're navigating.
>
> Yes, exactly. It's only a problem when navigating.
>
> > Can't you extract the title from the URL?
>
> Generally: No. And if, it would be just one big guess and might fail
> horribly
> under certain circumstances.
>

> > Otherwise you're forcing the ::name method to have no validity until the
> > widget is loaded.It's not meant to be unique but having it changeable
> might
> > be disappointing.
>
> The name is used for displaying something, it's not an identifier. So
> what's
> wrong with changing it eventually?
>
> It's not an identifier to the data model but it's an identifier to the user
interface.
It's ok in your case, I guess and I understand it's needed (it's actually
needed somewhere in QtDoc), so let's get it in.


> > Or maybe you could create the part when the IDocumentation is created,
> but
> > that would be a performance loss...
>
> Hm, what do you mean here? I do create the part, but it takes time until
> the
> HTML gets loaded. Or do you want me to wait for loading before returning?
>
> I'd really hate that, one more case where a syncronous API is forced on a
> async API... This just makes things lag, and would also kill my
> "...loading...
> [progressbar]" indicator useless (well, unfunctional).
>
That's what I meant by performance loss xD


>
> I'll come up with a patch and submit it to reviewboard. BTW: Is that
> already
> working with kdevplatform having moved to extragear?
>
> Should be working, yes.


> > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> > > Hey all, esp. Apol:
> > >
> > > Since I  use a KHTML-Part to embed the remote PHP documentation, the
> user
> > > can
> > > freely click on links and the requested document gets loaded. Right
> now,
> > > as soon as a link gets clicked, I don't know what to use as name. I
> just
> > > leave it
> > > empty, which also means the lineedit on top stays empty.
> > >
> > > I'd greatly prefer if I could set the name later on (i.e. once I know
> the
> > > <title> of the loaded document). Can I add some signal to the
> > > IDocumentation
> > > and make the controller listen to it. Didn't look into the code but imo
> > > it should kinda work out I think. Alternatively some method I can could
> > > call via
> > > ICore::self()->documentationController()->... would be OK for me as
> well,
> > > whatever you prefer.
>
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