[Kst] kst2 problems...

[Barth Netterfield]

Nicholas,

Have you looked over the DataSource Changes in the kst2 Devel Docs section?  I 
think what you are describing is in there, but if it isn't... now would be a 
good time :-)

cbn

On September 27, 2007, Brisset, Nicolas wrote:
> I can't really help you with the details here, all I can say is:
> - we use the datasource config stuff very often (especially with ASCII)
> - something I had in mind when I did the first prototype (which George
> then improved heavily :-)) and which was never implemented would be to
> remember extension <-> settings so that we can switch settings from a
> combobox. It is not high priority, though as long as saving/loading
> remembers the settings for each datasource as it currently does...
> - even in the 1.x series, configuring the datasource from the first
> datawizard page does not always work. I forgot the scenario but there
> are cases when you'd run into problems. I think it happens if you come
> back to the first page after you create a datasource instance, e.g. if
> you see only numbers in the list of fields when you expected to see
> names. I believe the datasource does not get destroyed and reconstructed
> with the new settings, but that needs to be checked. I guess this is
> pretty complex to implement properly...
>
> > I'd like to get this working, but wondering about the best approach.
> >
> > In 1.4 the datasources expected the application to pass a
> > KConfig object when loading the config widget.
> >
> > For portto4 I'd like to explore the plugins themselves being
> > responsible for managing their settings object.  However,
> > maybe this is not possible...
> >
> > Is it true for 1.4 that the settings object passed to the
> > datasource plugin was particular to the session you were running?
> >
> > Adam
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