Breadcrumbs in Kickoff, IMPORTANT FIXUP

[Mark]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Rick Stockton <
rickstockton at reno-computerhelp.com> wrote:

>  I'll top post this one:
>
> OOPS! And PLEASE ignore my post, in Vol 45/Issue 46, where I talked about
> this being requiring "just an easy change": This requires no changes at
> all. It's already supported, and it even works back in 4.7.4. (Maybe
> earlier, but 4.7.4 is the earliest Release I have "lying around" for test
> purposes.)
>
> You only need to ignore the Doco Comment about acceptedButtons taking only
> 3 values ;) Y can give it all 5, like this:
>
> acceptedButtons: Qt.LeftButton | Qt.RightButton
>                                            | Qt.MiddleButton | Qt.XButton1
> | Qt.XButton2
>
> and your MouseArea will start getting Press and Release events (plus
> DoubleClick, plus Press and Hold) for 'BackButton' and 'ForwardButton'.
> Here's my Test/Demo/Example program for you to try, and use as a model
> (just run it using "qmlviewer"): http://pastebin.kde.org/442676/ I set
> the expiration on that Paste at 30 days. It will be an official example,
> but with 27 buttons, in Qt5.
>
> On 03/18/2012 05:27 AM, Mark wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Xavier Sythe <me at sythe.me> wrote:
>
>> As far as I can recall, it was decided that the "back button" would be
>> implemented in the new Kickoff as support for the mouse's "back button", as
>> well as support for the "backspace" key, in conjunction with the other
>> keyboard navigation. (arrow keys)
>>
>>  I would appreciate Martin and Aaron's confirmation that this is the
>> finalized concept that will be implemented for 4.9.
>>
>>  Cheers,
>> Xavier
>>
>
>
>  I can confirm (or actually deny) that partly.
> They did indeed want to do that, however it was then figured out that QML
> didn't get all the mouse events required for that. That should be fixed in
> Qt5 but not in Qt4. So i'm afraid the mouse back/forward button support
> isn't going to be in anytime soon.
>
>
> Why isn't that documented on the Qt site
http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/qml-mousearea.html#acceptedButtons-prop?
That really sucks!

Nice to know that it's possible :)
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