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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KTabListBox
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () caldera ! de>
Date:       1999-08-30 9:10:02
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"Dirk A. Mueller" wrote:
> 
> Stephan Kulow <coolo@caldera.de> wrote:
> 
> > Who put the obsolete warning in ktablistbox header?
> 
> me.
> 
> > Not that I mind to get rid of it, but it's API is
> > rather very different from the one of QListView,
> > so the porting isn't that easy.
> 
> that's right. If porting would be easy, I would have done it myself and
> committed it instead of putting the obsolete warning into the header
> file ;)
> 
> > Has someone a tip how to get an easy mapping from integer->item in
> > that row without iterating over the whole list each time (which
> > should get way too slow)?
> 
> yes: don't use such a mapping. It is unnecessary. and btw it is faulty,
> as the mapping may change when the sort order is changed by the user.
> 
> I know libkfile relies on such a mapping. I tried to fix it for some
> hours, but ended up deleting the modifications and put a "redesign the
> way libkfile tries to handle the files" on my TODO list.
> 
> Note that currently libkfile rebuilds the list whenever sort-order is
> changed. QListView makes that obsolete.
> 
But QListView isn't the only view. How often do I have to repeat that?

Greetings, Stephan

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