Applet::createConfigurationInterface

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Sebastian Kuegler wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 April 2008 06:39:10 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Monday 07 April 2008, Sebastian Kuegler wrote:
> > > From the API it's not easily visible how createConfigurationInterface()
> > > is supposed to be used. Can you give a brief outline how this function
> > > should be used in an applet?
> >
> > you can look at the analog clock applet, but generally it's this:
>
> I don't see where the analog clock (or any other applet) uses this method
> rather than the old way of doing it. grep doesn't show any users in
> kdebase.

whoops, i didn't commit this =/

> > void createConfigurationInterface(KConfigureDialog *parent)
> > {
> >     QWidget *page = new QWidget(parent);
> >     /* fill page with widgets */
> >     parent->addPage(page);
> > }
>
> Not quite clear how adding a UI file works then ...

void Clock::createConfigurationInterface(KConfigDialog *parent)
{
    //TODO: Make the size settable
    QWidget *widget = new QWidget();
    ui.setupUi(widget);

    parent->setButtons( KDialog::Ok | KDialog::Cancel | KDialog::Apply );
    connect(parent, SIGNAL(applyClicked()), this, SLOT(configAccepted()));
    connect(parent, SIGNAL(okClicked()), this, SLOT(configAccepted()));
    parent->addPage(widget, parent->windowTitle(), "chronometer");

    <... bunch of set up code, e.g. setting widget values ...>
}

this is of course the difficult path ... we do have support for packages with 
kconfigxt and ui files. unfortunately, kconfigxt is broken when it comes to 
KConfigGroup which is why i haven't yet exposed this more.

i'd *like* to make it possible to just expose your ui and package files and 
have it made for you. we theoretically do this for scripted applets already 
but due to the kconfigskeleton uselessness it's more theoretical than 
practical code ;) once that's addressed, i'll make this available to c++ 
applets as well.

> Sorry for being a bit dense.

np =)

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