From kde-core-devel  Thu Oct 12 07:35:01 2000
From: Matthias Elter <me () caldera ! de>
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 07:35:01 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: kpanelapplet API problem
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=97133610124537

On Thursday 12 October 2000 11:35, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> The KPanelApplet API lacks a change handler
>          virtual void popupDirectionChange( Direction );
>
> It used to be there, but now it's gone. Instead, we are using an ugly
> hack with a resizeEvent(0).
>
> Adding this handler breaks binary compatibility, but makes writing applets
> significantly less hacky.

It's "hacky" but works perfect and is transparent for the applet authors. All 
they have to worry about is the resizeEvent. But I don't have a religious 
opinion on this, so feel free to change it. On the other hand ... it's 
perhaps a bit to late 4 days before we release 2.0.

Bye,
Matthias