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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] KAddressbook issues
From:       Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-08-28 21:46:01
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On Saturday 24 August 2002 23:59, Tobias Koenig wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2002 at 07:02:02PM +0200, Martin Thierer wrote:
>
> > 2. The "Formated Name" field gets initialized only with the first
> > character you enter into the "Name" field.
>
> Well, I think Cornelius should comment on this. That is such a
> problem I discussed in previous threads.
> The program _does not_ no, what the user wants to input, so it can't
> handle all input correctly.

But parsing only the first letter is certainly a bug.

> Here is the problem, that in one case the formatted name shouldn't be
> overwritten, but in an other case it should.
> Since QComboBox can't tell me if the user typed in the text by hand
> or if it was set by the a method, I can't differ the input => I can't
> handle the input correctly :(

Shouldn't it be possible to use the QComboBox::textChanged signal to 
find out, if the user changed the value by typing something?

> Either we make the formatted name combo read-only or the formatted
> name isn't updated automatically in the combo box.
> Cornelius?

I would prefer fixing it properly. It is possible to find out, if the 
user typed something or not, so we can use this information to trigger 
automatic update.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>
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