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Last week Ellen posted an update on the way they HCI people wanted to make=
=20
clear how we should do layout of dialogs; see
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2745

I've found that the proposed alignment is pretty darn hard to do in Qt=20
Designer.  Doing right align is one thing; but aligning the items in multip=
le=20
groupboxes is a lot harder to do properly.
So, I had an idea;  do this programmatically using a visitor which traverse=
s=20
all the widgets.

I added a class in KOffice libs to do just that. It takes a 'normal' dialog=
 as=20
we have been creating them in KDE3 for ages and adds alignments / minimum=20
sizes to get the wanted results. Note that it is even capable of aligning t=
he=20
columns across tabs. ;)

Now; here is my question to k-c-d.
I need the proper coordinates of the (layouted) widgets to do the job, to=20
determine what should line up and what not.  Prior to showing the dialog=20
widgets don't have a coordinate. Some are at 0,0
In fact; even on the showEvent of the dialog widgets that are in a nested=20
layout have coordinates 0,0

I ended up with a singleshot in the KPageDialog inheriting class which is=20
called from the viewEvent().
This has 2 nasty side effects;
1) I need to add some 10 lines to each dialog to do this 'trick'.
2) The layout jumps due to being layouted twice. Hardly noticeable, but sti=
ll.

We could move this to KDialog to avoid the first problem, but I see no=20
solution for the second problem.

Thoughts, ideas, flames, praise?

See;
http://members.home.nl/zander/images/layoutvisitor-indent-spacing.png
and after;
http://members.home.nl/zander/images/layoutvisitor-indent-spacing-after.png

Another one;
http://members.home.nl/zander/images/layoutvisitor-pageLayout.png
and after;
http://members.home.nl/zander/images/layoutvisitor-pageLayout-after.png

The class;
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/koffice/libs/kofficeui/KoLayoutVisitor.h?view=
=3Dlog
=2D-=20
Thomas Zander

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