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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: How to make an extra toolbar?
From:       Andreas Pakulat <apaku () gmx ! de>
Date:       2009-06-29 10:20:03
Message-ID: 20090629102003.GA21307 () neo ! apaku ! dnsalias ! org
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On 29.06.09 16:43:52, Robin Atwood wrote:
> 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?

No. That rather sounds like a bug in kdelibs.

Andreas

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