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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Patch for KPresenter (Presentation Time)
From:       Toshitaka Fujioka <toshitaka () kde ! gr ! jp>
Date:       2001-04-15 9:35:22
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On Saturday 14 April 2001 18:59, Toshitaka Fujioka wrote:
> On Friday 13 April 2001 23:22, David Faure wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > Hmm, strange feature :)
> > I mean the idea is interesting, but I'm afraid that a menu item named
> > "Stop Watch" doesn't really tell the user what it's going to do.
> >
> > And if you only display the time at the end, why update 4 member variable
> > each second ? ;-)
> > This could be done _much_ simpler with a QTime, using start() at the
> > beginning of the presentation, and elapsed() at the end.
> >
> > What about showing "last presentation duration: hh:mm:ss" in the
> > statusbar, instead of a message box ? This would be less intrusive, so
> > the toggle action wouldn't even be needed anymore, IMHO.
> > Look at kword/kwview.cc for an example of how to handle statusbar items
> > (including the tricky cases of splitted views etc. :)
> > I see that kpresenter doesn't have any statusbar currently... Would be a
> > good opportunity to add one, with the current slide number and the total
> > number of slides (like for pages in kword), especially useful for those
> > who don't use the sidebar ;-)
> >
> > Well, just an idea. In any case, a QTimer and a printf every second isn't
> > necessary, that's for sure ;)
>
> Thank you for advice. I'll try.
 
I made the part of presentation duration (I used QTime).
However, I wrote statusBar()->insertItem(...) (like KWrod) in 
void KPresenterView::initGui() of kpresenter_view.cc, but statusbar
was not displayed.
Is there an idea?
 
Thank you.

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