[Panel-devel] DataEngine and Corona patches

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Wed Aug 15 20:52:05 CEST 2007


On Wednesday 15 August 2007, Percy Leonhardt wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 August 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > wrong. sourceRequested may result in the source being created. that's the
> > whole point of calling sourceRequested and it returning a bool. if the
> > engine can't create the source, then it returns false. otherwise,
> > sourceRequested creates the source and returns true.
>
> BTW: how is the data engine supposed to create the source? Is it okay to
> create a new datacontainer and then use addSource()?
>
> Or should I use setData() like seen in other engines?

either way works. whichever is easiest or makes the most sense for you and 
your particular engine.

> Problem is, that I 
> don't really have something to set in requestSource().

at the very least, create something even if it doesn't have any data() yet.

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