On Sunday 28 July 2002 06:39 pm, Zack Rusin wrote:
> On Sunday 28 July 2002 18:18, Doug Hanley wrote:
> > Would you be willing to put some time into that?
>
> I'd love to! Using QTabBar is hardly any fun, since no matter what we do
> it's still going to be a hack.

Yeah, I Agree.  Just one thing though... before, you said that we would cre=
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a new tab bar that doesn't inherit QTabBar.  The problem with that is becua=
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we must use the function QTabWidget::setTabBar( QTabBar * ) it has to inher=
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QTabBar.  Now, that raised another problem, even if we reimplement all the=
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functions, we still can't access the private variables, so we would have to=
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make new variables for our own use (although they would be very similar to=
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the existing ones).  That would result in a slight waste of memory, but its=
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very marginal and there is only one of these objects per window at most.

> > I was thinking we could make the new tab bar more like opera's too, i
> > find their's to be better for internet browsing.
>
> Hmm, I don't know about that, Opera uses workspace to menage its windows
> and their tabbar is just a detachable toolbar with bunch of 'toggle
> buttons' on it. But that brings another good question, does tabbed
> browsing need necessarily QTabBar like widget or should it be be done
> with an entirely different widget? IMHO,  Mozilla is the best of all
> the tabbed browsers (Skipstone was the first one that was using it,
> wasn't it?) and would go with a solution similar to theirs. The one
> thing that I'm not sure is whether placing arrow buttons is a better
> solution than scaling tabs. What do you think?

Hmm... You know what, I've always found those arrow things kind of annoying=
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anyway.  I think we should adopt mozilla's policy and scale the tabs.  Its=
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much more usable in my opinion.

So, do you want to just start with qtabbar.h and qtabbar.cpp and adjust fro=
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there?  I think maybe i'll start some work on that now.  One problem though=
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I'll be gone for about 3 weeks starting tuesday (I'm seeing going to see Th=
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Who in NYC, woohoo!), so I probably wont have much time to work on this the=
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After that though, I'm ready as I'll ever be.

=2D- Doug Hanley