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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Widgets for IP- and MAC-Address
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () olympusproject ! org>
Date:       2002-09-01 1:46:52
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On Saturday 31 August 2002 05:11, Timo A. Hummel wrote:
> Hi developers :)
>
> since about over 1 1/2 years abstinence from the KDE developers, I'm
> back (you might remember me as the guy who hacked that nasty dr. konqi
> together), 

sweet.. welcome back! =)

> Here are some thoughts about both the IP-Address widget and the
> MAC-Address widget.

> - consists of 4 KRestrictedLine Widgets and 3 text labels (the DOT)

as has been mentioned elsewhere, why seperate fields vs one field with a 
QValidator attached? i've written such a thing for IPv4 addresses previously 
so i know it is very possible and it results in an elegant input widget. the 
delimeters can be automatically added/removed in response to what the user 
types, it allows for easy/obvious keyboard traversal (usually pressing the 
left key when at the begining of a text edit doesn't transfer you to the end 
of the previous one ;), etc...

you already need to do validation on each of the individual labels and for all 
the labels together, so it isn't like this is much simpler code-wise i'd 
imagine.

just curious as to what your decision process was =)

- -- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
    - Albert Einstein
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