From kde-devel  Mon Jun 29 09:43:52 2009
From: Robin Atwood <robin () binro ! org>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:43:52 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: How to make an extra toolbar?
Message-Id: <200906291643.53153.robin () binro ! org>
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=124626874411529

On Sunday 28 June 2009, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> 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 -
I am talking about the apprc configuration file in ~/.kde4/share/config. Mine 
has got entries like:

[MainWindow][Toolbar filterToolBar]
IconSize=22
Index=1
ToolButtonStyle=TextBesideIcon

This is what got messed up. Would updating the version of the appui.rc file 
avoid that?

-Robin
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