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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KTabListBox
From:       Herwin Jan Steehouwer <herwinjs () palet ! nl>
Date:       1998-06-17 7:54:52
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On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Stefan Taferner wrote:

> At 00:04 17.6.1998 +0200, Sven Radej wrote:
> >On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Herwin Jan Steehouwer wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I a'm creating K Xicq ( making BIG progress, will release first snapshot
> >>in a week !!!! ).
> >>
> >>I have downloaden the a snapshot of kdelibs yesterday, when recompiling K
> >>Xicq with this, i notist the following problems :
> >>
> >>->setColumn(x,"",0) in Beta 4 don't show this column, but in the new
> >>snapshot it show this column ;-(( is this a bug, or is there a other way
> >>to make a column that is not visible ?? 
> 
> The ability to create invisible columns by setting the width to zero
> often caused problems because it happened by mistake and was
> not reversible. With the apps that saved the width of the columns one
> ended up in permanently removing one column by mistake.
> (except that if the user finds out how to edit the apps k-rc file).
> 
> I am sorry that you have problems now, but IMO it is not good to store
> extra data in a listbox.
> 
> I do not think that we should have invisible columns that can be
> used for this task. Please use an extra array or list instead.

I think is is a handy way to store keys ( for me the ICQ UIN ) in the list
so i don't have to do it the hard way with 2 lists ( more mem ;-( ) 

KOrganizer is also using this option !!

Herwin Jan

> 
> >KTabListBox is changed after Beta4. I don't think that it is possible to
> >make invisible columns.
> 
> True.
> 
> Kind regards, Stefan
> 
> 

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