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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KAStatusBar
From:       Espen Sand <espen.sand () neo ! no>
Date:       2000-03-15 14:36:03
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Sven Radej wrote:
>On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Espen Sand wrote:
>(...)
>>Hm, do you think it is possible to add an option so that an item can get a fixed
>>width? In khexedit I print quite a lot of data on the status line and I don't
>>like (it looks bad) that the width of an entry changes all the time depending on
>>what is printed because it causes other entries to be moved horizontally when
>>this happens. Ok, I can add a widget (and freeze its width) to QStatusBar
>>bypassing KStatusBar but I prefer to avoid that.
>
>OK, here you are:
>  /**
>   * Sets item @p id to have fixed width. This cannot be undone.
>   *
>   * @param id id of item
>   * @param width fixed width in pixels
>   */
>  void setItemFixed(int id, int width);
>

thanks
Perhaps nitpicking but I think a "void freezeItem(int id)" would be useful as
well. Quite often one define a "max" string in insertItem(..) so the width could
be automatically computed using the string already present. I think new 
programmers would prefer that over something like:

statusBar()->insertItem( string, id ....)
statusBar()->setItemFixed( id,
  statusBar()->fontMetrics().boundingRect(string).width() );


-- 
Espen Sand

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