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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kpanelapplet API problem
From:       Matthias Elter <me () caldera ! de>
Date:       2000-10-12 7:35:01
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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

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