A screen shot and a question

[Dong Tiger]

2008/9/16 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>

> On Tuesday 16 September 2008, Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 September 2008, Dong Tiger wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I tried to make Google Gadgets(GG in short) to work on plasma panel.
> Here
> > > is a screen shot of a vertical panel with 3 GGs. But there are still
> > > issues remain:
> > >
> > > 1. It doesn't work on horizontal panel. When added to horizontal panel,
> > > the applet gets a 'invalid' constraintsEvent with width constaint of 9
> (
> > > In my case).
>
> it's not invalid; it's an or'd value, in this case SizeConstraint |
> FormFactorConstraint
>
> > > So the embedded GG just doesn't show up at all.
> >
> > strange, you are getting a SizeConstraint combined with a
> > FormFactorConstraint,
>
> not strange: it's added to a panel, so it changes size and form factor.
>
> > > 2. I can't adjust the size of an applet when it's on panel. I am using
> > > Plasma::ConstrainedSquare for these applets.
> >
> > constrainedSquare means that the applet for instance in an horizontal
> panel
> > can have a width at max equal to the panel height, but can be
> automatically
> > resized by the panel layout. in general you can't never ever call
> resize()
> > in the constraintevent when you are in the panel (or in a layout in
> > general) because it would collide with the automatic layout resize, thus
> > causing an infinite loop of resizing and 100%cpu usage...
> >
> > to set the size in a panel you should make it IgnoreAspectRatio and then
> > set minimum and maximum sizes, but this is quite ugly and error prone
> when
> > the panel switches run-time from vertical to horizontal.
>
> can't you just reimplement sizeHint and return different values based on
> formFactor()?

I am using AppletScript so I can't reimplement sizeHint :(

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