From kde-devel  Sun Jun 28 13:24:28 2009
From: Andreas Pakulat <apaku () gmx ! de>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:24:28 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: How to make an extra toolbar?
Message-Id: <20090628132428.GE13945 () neo ! apaku ! dnsalias ! org>
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On 28.06.09 19:58:54, Robin Atwood wrote:
> >In the KDE3 version of my app I created an extra toolbar with no associated
> >menu simply by doing:
> >
> >	toolBar( "extra" )->insertButton(...)
> >	toolBar( "extra" )->insertComboBox(...)
> >
> >I tried a similar thing with KDE4 by declaring a couple of KPushButton and
> >KComboBox objects and adding them them via:
> >
> >	toolBar( "extra" )->addWidget( pb1 ), etc.
> >
> >Everything compiled cleanly, so imagine my dismay when after starting the
> > app there was no sign of the new toolbar. :( Is it necessary for every
> > toolbar to be configured in the XML rc file? Must I use actions rather than
> > widgets?
> 
> I didn't get any reply on this so after days of examining the code and looking 
> at the code in other apps and not finding the problem, I had suddenly had the 
> insight to delete the ~/.kde/share/config/apprc file in my home directory. 
> Then the new toolbar appeared. Toolbar setting are saved in apprc and all my 
> experiments had completely munged it up. HTH some other n00b developer. :)

That means you haven't increased the version of your xmlgui file. Thats
needed every time you update the file thats installed by your application,
else the user-vconfigured-version will override the system-installed
version.

Andreas
 
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