From kde-core-devel  Sat May 13 15:08:46 2000
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 15:08:46 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: kxmlguiclient / document method
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On Sat, May 13, 2000 at 03:37:29PM +0200, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I just realized a really ugly problem :-( 
> (and it is entirely my fault, I admit it)
> 
> We have a method in KXMLGUIClient called document() . The problem is that
> this method is virtual and thus makes it impossible for any class
> inheritting from KXMLGUIClient to have a method with the same name but a
> different return value.
> 
> (in particular I'm thinking about a text editor interface, with a View
> class with a document() method returning a reference to the associated
> document) 
> 
> (or just think koffice's KoView class (where we "hacked" around  it via
> the koDocument() method))
> 
> (and what's even worse: KTMainWindow inherits from that class, too)
> 
> Restrictions are bad ;-) , and that is why I'd love to solve this problem.
> 
> I guess we have two possibilities:
> 
> - make the method non-virtual
>   (breaks binary compatibility)
>
> - rename it to something else (xmlguiDocument() or so)
I'd go for that.
Unique naming for sure. And probably not used very much in apps
anyway (i.e. I mean it's not a huge change in the API - except
for kofficecore apparently).

>   (requires a bunch of fixes in koffice)
>  Simon (feeling ashamed for having done this ugly mistake :-(
Naming problems, heh ? :)

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