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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    [PATCH] WhatsThis links in KActiveLabels
From:       Tim Jansen <tim () tjansen ! de>
Date:       2003-03-30 16:14:12
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Hi...

I would like to add the attached patch to kdelibs/kdeui/kactivelabel.*. 

It adds "What'sThis"/Tooltip link support to KActiveLabel. When the users 
click on such a label a tooltip appears, usually with additional information. 
In order to create such a link just include a 

<a href="whatsthis:This is the text that will be displayed in the 
QWhatsThis">More Information</a>

in the text of the KActiveLabel.

Here's a screenshot:
http://www.tjansen.de/krfb/whatsthis.png


The purpose is to create more structure for the instructions in a dialog or 
wizard. Especially Desktop Sharing suffers from having far too much text in 
the dialogs, but the information is still needed sometimes. Making the texts 
shorter and labeling the information increases the probability that the user 
actually reads them...

bye...





["kactivelabel-whatsthis.patch" (text/x-diff)]

Index: kdeui/kactivelabel.cpp
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/kde/kdelibs/kdeui/kactivelabel.cpp,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -3 -p -r1.5 kactivelabel.cpp
--- kdeui/kactivelabel.cpp	29 Mar 2002 04:53:01 -0000	1.5
+++ kdeui/kactivelabel.cpp	30 Mar 2003 16:03:41 -0000
@@ -17,10 +17,13 @@
     Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
 */
 
+#include "kactivelabel.h"
+
 #include <kapplication.h>
+#include <qregexp.h>
+#include <qwhatsthis.h>
 #include <qsimplerichtext.h>
 
-#include "kactivelabel.h"
 
 KActiveLabel::KActiveLabel(QWidget * parent, const char * name)
  : QTextBrowser(parent, name)
@@ -62,6 +65,12 @@ void KActiveLabel::paletteChanged()
 
 void KActiveLabel::openLink(const QString & link)
 {
+   QRegExp whatsthis("whatsthis:/*([^/].*)");
+   if (whatsthis.exactMatch(link)) {
+      QWhatsThis::display(whatsthis.cap(1));
+      return;
+   }
+
    QStringList args;
    args << "exec" << link;
    kapp->kdeinitExec("kfmclient", args);
Index: kdeui/kactivelabel.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/kde/kdelibs/kdeui/kactivelabel.h,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -3 -p -r1.5 kactivelabel.h
--- kdeui/kactivelabel.h	1 Aug 2002 11:39:36 -0000	1.5
+++ kdeui/kactivelabel.h	30 Mar 2003 16:03:41 -0000
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
 class KActiveLabelPrivate;
  /**
   * Label with support for selection and clickable links.
+  * @ref openLink() the actions that will be taken when the user
+  * clicks on a link.
   *
   * @author Waldo Bastian (bastian@kde.org)
   * @version $Id: kactivelabel.h,v 1.5 2002/08/01 11:39:36 pfeiffer Exp $
@@ -57,7 +59,11 @@ public:
 
 public slots:
     /**
-     * Opens @p link.
+     * Opens @p link in the default browser.
+     *
+     * If @p link starts with the text "whatsthis:" a @ref QWhatsThis
+     * box will appear and the display the rest of the text. The WhatsThis
+     * functionality is available since KDE 3.2. 
      */
     virtual void openLink(const QString & link);
 


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