From kde-core-devel  Mon Aug 30 16:58:01 1999
From: Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () troll ! no>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:58:01 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KTabListBox
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=93603216813267

On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote:
>Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
>
>> >That means you need to create all the possible views - long, short, mix dirs
>> >etc. just to display anything at all. Seems a bit daft to me, or am I
>> >misunderstanding?
>> 
>> I must admit, that I don't know the design of the KFileDialog. But it sounded
>> for me like Coolo's problem is to access other equivalent items using the index
>> of one item, and this can be solved by the pointer stuff.
>> 
>> But until now I didn't really understand Coolo's problem, maybe you (Coolo)
>> could say a bit more exactly what the real problem is (besides "I don't want
>> QListView to sort my items" :-)
>> 
>The items are stored in KDir and the views only get the items in the
>presorted
>order as the sorting should be independent of the views (as I said
>before), because
>I don't want to duplicate the code. 
>The problem is that KFileDialog will lookup completions and other
>details directly
>in it's own (sorted) list of items and only pass the index to the view
>for 
>highlightning. This index I need to map to QListView's interpretion of
>things.
>It doesn't matter how the listview _displays_ things, but I need to map
>the
>index to an item. That's the reason why I prefer Roberto's solution as
>I'm not
>going to rewrite parts of the framework, just because QListView is
>different
>than anything else.

Ok, I still don't understand your problem, as you can still solve that with
pointers to items instead of indices. But if you think the (IMO ugly) QList
solution is the best, do it. 

--
Reggie