From kde-core-devel  Wed Sep 01 14:59:54 1999
From: Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () troll ! no>
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 14:59:54 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KTabListBox
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On Wed, 01 Sep 1999, Richard Moore wrote:
>
>
>Bernd Gehrmann wrote:
>> 
>> >> - LOTS of flexibility about how it can be subclassed. Much more so than
>> >> QFileDialog, especially in terms of how the UI can be extended.
>> 
>> How can it be extended?
>
>You can either add child widgets above or below the main view (eg to add a
>file info display or something) or you can 'swallow' the entire layout by
>reimplementing the swallower() method. The latter allows you to add new
>widgets around the outside of the dialog (eg. a preview window). Another
>option is to use the views in libkfile directly. You also have the option
>of extending KDir to navigate new kinds of filesystem (even ones you made
>up).

You can do most of that in QFileDialog in Qt 2.1 as well, but as I said I don't
want to start a KFileDialog vs. QFileDialog war :-)

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Reggie