Help on some Plasma methods

[Leonardo Giordani]

Ah! You are prematurely kiiling my carreer as a C++ Plasma hacker =) =)
Thank you for the tips!


Leonardo Giordani
Author of The Digital Cat <http://lgiordani.github.com>
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2013/7/12 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>

> On Friday, July 12, 2013 19:03:54 Leonardo Giordani wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm a little puzzled by the following methods I see implemented in
> > digital-clock:
> >
> > * paintInterface()
> > * constraintsEvent()
>
> You do not want to use either of these things. You should be using QML for
> new
> development.
>
> In any case .. here’s the answers:
>
> paintInterface is the method in which the plasmoid gets the chance to paint
> directly to the canvas. in qml this just doesn’t ever happen.
>
> constraintsEvent: this is called when the form factor, screen location,
> immutability, etc changes
>
> again, in QML you don’t need to deal with this as they are properties you
> can
> bind to from the global plasmoid object
>
> so short story: use qml. :)
>
> --
> Aaron J. Seigo
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