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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: seeking advice on KDialogBase and KFileWidget
From:       Emily Ezust <yoamwmvs () umail ! corel ! com>
Date:       2000-01-27 17:39:54
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Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> > Emily Ezust wrote:
> > > I'm trying to create a tabbed dialog from KDialogBase
> > > which will contain a KFileWidget to allow the user to select a
> > > bunch of files and also check some checkboxes, but the API
> > > doesn't seem to let me do this (at least not in an obvious way).
> Speaking of KFileWidget... that was supposed to be a convenience-widget
> for exact that purpose you're going to use it; but... some days later,
> KDirOperator changed a lot and actually does everything (I think) that
> KFileWidget does. Just the name doesn't tell you that ;)

Hi!
I'm still running into difficulties. If I use KFileWidget,
I can't catch the signals fileHighlighted or fileSelected because
KFileWidget never hooks up the dirOperator's signals to its
own slots to emit signals. There is a function called setDirOperator
that does this, but it's protected. Should that be public? Or
should the connects be done in the constructor?

Now, if I use KDirOperator, I'm not sure how to plop it into 
my tab dialog as I could with KFileWidget.

I want to do something like this:

  QHBox *firstpage = addHBoxPage(i18n("Add"), i18n("Test"));
  m_dirList = new KDirOperator(KDirOperator::Simple,
                               firstpage, "dirlist");

or, as I saw in the archives, maybe this:

  QFrame *frame = addPage(i18n("Advanced"));
  QVBoxLayout *vlay = new QVBoxLayout(frame, 0, spacingHint());
 
  m_dirList = new KDirOperator(KDirOperator::Simple,
                               frame, "dirlist");
  vlay->addWidget(m_dirList);  

(But this doesn't help another problem I have - that the FileWidget
is always so tiny!)

I would much appreciate some advice (or commiseration :-).
-Emily

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