Plasma::RadioButton cannot be AutoExclusive?

[Ben Cooksley]

Nobody? I have successfully worked around this bug by correctly using
a QButtonGroup, however the underlying bug in libplasma is still
present. Is there any hope what so ever of getting this fixed before
the release of 4.2?

regards,

Ben Cooksley

On 12/9/08, Ben Cooksley <sourtooth at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/9/08, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
>> On Monday 08 December 2008, Ben Cooksley wrote:
>>> On 12/8/08, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
>>> > On Sunday 07 December 2008, Ben Cooksley wrote:
>>> >> Hi,
>>> >>
>>> >> I am developing the KuickQuiz plasmoid ( currently very alpha in
>>> >> playground/base/plasma/applets/kuickquiz ) and use Plasma::RadioButton
>>> >> to allow the user to choose the multi choice answer they want.
>>> >> However, I have ran into the issue of despite 4 Plasma::RadioButtons
>>> >> having the same parent, the radio button itself is never auto
>>> >> exclusive, so when the user changes their mind, the answer does not
>>> >> automatically switch to the newly chosen choice, and both become
>>> >> chosen so the user could potentially cheat and choose all of the
>>> >> choices.
>>> >
>>> > what are the RadioButtons parented to, exactly?
>>>
>>> They are parented to "this" which is "QuizQuestion" a subclass of
>>> Plasma::Frame. the involved code is in quizquestion.cpp line 31 (
>>> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/playground/base/plasma/applets/kuickquiz/quizqu
>>>estion.cpp )
>>
>> ah, Plasma::Frame isn't actually a QGraphicsProxyWidget. it's just
>> pretending
>> to be one; nativeWidget() even just returns 0 ... always.
>>
>> try putting them in a Plasma::GroupBox instead and see if that works.
> Didn't work. still able to select them all.
>>
>> *or* create a QButtonGroup, which is a QObject class and allows you to
>> group
>> buttons however you'd like. not as elegant as automatically working, but
>> should be guaranteed to work =)
> Didn't work either :-(
>>
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