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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Applets? [ was: Re: kde mp3 player]
From:       Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () troll ! no>
Date:       1999-05-13 15:53:46
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On Thu, 13 May 1999, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
>On Thu, 13 May 1999, Matthias Ettrich wrote:
>> 
>> What really want is the possibility to drag certain items as new
>> toolbuttons on a custom toolbar, no? 
>
>Hi, 
>
>A few days ago I checked two classes KAction and KUIActions into kdeui,
>which allow the creation of descriptively named actions which connect to
>signals and slots (similar to KAccel). Each action can be connected to a
>menu item, accel and/or button. Also, each action can have an iconset
>defined for it.

yes!

>
>These are still under heavy development, and I am writing some frameworks
>for easily creating menus and toolbars using these actions. Once this is
>done, writing dialogs for customizing accels, iconsets and toolbars using
>these should be quite straightforward.

yes!

>
>I did not want to announce anything till I had something clearly superior
>to what is currently available, but you've forced my hand... ;) I just
>wanted to let you guys know so that nobody starts something similar. The
>classes already work, but are not yet useful to begin using in apps until
>the toolbar- and menu- creating classes are done.

I wrote similar classes ( unfortunately bound tightly to a non-open-source
project so I don't own the code ). We have plans, however, for something like
this for later Qt versions (not 2.0).

Great that KDE gets it even faster now :-)

Matthias

>
>-Taj.
>
>Sirtaj S. Kang       taj@kde.org         ssk@physics.unimelb.edu.au
>Univ of Melbourne	
>			"I'm a commercial operating system."
>				-Doug Michels (CEO SCO)

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