The tooltip state. Not that good. Proposal for improvement.

[Mark]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, May 29, 2012 13:53:47 Mark wrote:
>> > Ahh oke, i get it.
>> > For the moment i can even try to use a QGraphicsProxyWidget and just
>> send
>> > WindowPreview to QML. It actually seems fairly easy to do as described
>> > here:
>> >
>> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/declarative-cppextensions-qwidgets-qwidgets
>> > -cpp.html or
>> > if it doesn't work i can always put a big red squared stub in it as
>> > placeholder ^_-
>>
>> heh.. yes.. for getting devel going, a placeholder is fine.
>>
>> as marco noted, a proxy widget isn't going to be much help. what is
>> needed is
>> a QML element that knows of the top level window so it can set xatoms as
>> needed (and later whatever we do for wayland, etc).
>>
>> so to me it makes sense to have this particular QML item be a C++
>> subclass of
>> QDeclarativeItem that is tightly coupled to the window implementation and
>> has
>> a property for the window id to show.
>>
>> one question would be whether to support showing multiple windows in one
>> of
>> these items, or one window per item. i lean towards one window per item
>> for
>> ease of implementation and flexibility of use inside the QML.
>>
>
> Certainly 1! then a list of those elements when there are multiple.
> Showing it would probably be with either a Row {} or Column {} depending
> on the orientation.
>
>>
>> (and yes, with the xatom approach we'll run into repaint latency issues if
>> these are highly animated ... but let's start with this and then start
>> experimenting from there.)
>>
>> --
>> Aaron J. Seigo
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> http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/QML/API#Dialog now i
remember one of the issues i had with a Dialog. What's the recommended way
of changing it's width and/or height?

width and height are read only ...
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