From kde-core-devel  Wed Jul 07 12:52:28 1999
From: Simon Hausmann <tronical () gmx ! net>
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 12:52:28 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DialogBase and KAboutDialog in kdelibs/kdeui
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=93135201425300

On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Mirko Sucker wrote:

> Hello,
> like we discussed on LinuxTag in Kaiserslautern, I added two classes to the KDE
> user interface library: 
> 
> ° DialogBase (dialogbase.h, dialogbase.cpp):
> 
> A class that manages common tasks required for writing up-to-date dialogs. It
> provides "OK", "Apply" and "Cancel" buttons, tooltips, quickhelp, a link to
> show the help window, some frames and general geometry management. To use it,
> simply create a widget that suits as the main part of the dialog, set its
> minimum size and hand it over to a DialogBase object as the dialogs "main
> widget". Mostly it is not needed to derive a own dialog class.
> 
> ° KAboutDialog (kaboutdialog.h, kaboutdialog.cpp):
> 
> A general about dialog for KDE apps, providing logos, displays for author,
> maintainer, an arbitrary number of contributors and  email and homepage URLs.
> Again, to use it, only a sequence of calls is needed, no new class. 
> 
> ---------
> I have an example for both (KAboutDialog is a DialogBase) called
> kaboutdialog_test.cc, is there a place to put it?

kdelibs/kdetest/ ?

Bye,
 Simon