[Marble-devel] QGraphicsView Overlay for marble

[Inge Wallin]

On Sunday 22 March 2009 19:06:55 Andrew Manson wrote:
> hi everyone,
>
> like i said in my last email I've given the QGraphics stuff a quick
> go... and i think its been quite successful! I've attached a diff just
> to show it in action but mind you this is just a HACK! this is not
> intended to be put into production!!
>
> the reason I'm sending this around is because i am just looking for
> ideas on where to put it... ( in the code i mean! i know it belongs in a
> branch, so it can't do any damage ;) ) I reckon that i should make it
> into a plugin but i don't really know how. The only thing that this
> requires is that it has access to the MarbleWidget so that it can set it
> as a parent and get information from its methods and slots.
>
> Any ideas?

Hi Andrew,

This may be an interesting development, although I think that you would have 
to add some geo features into the graphics view as well to make it 
interesting.  Things like "move this item to a geo position" instead of to 
just pixel coordinates and things like that.

However, there is a big no-no in the code.  You should not put private members 
into the MarbleWidget class.  That's what the MarbleWidgetPrivate class is 
for.  If you do, you will destroy binary compatibility.

  -Inge