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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: New unit widget
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-10-27 9:00:58
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On Saturday 26 October 2002 10:30, Lenny wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> Rob started to write the first of the 2 needed unit aware widgets for karbon: 
> a double spinbox.
> 
> It will be soon similar to the one found in Illustrator and maybe other 
> programs: if the domestic unit is for example mm and the widget currently 
> show "1.5mm" and you enter "1in" it will calulate this to "27mm" (or 
> similar).
> 
> Laurent means that this is not needed in koffice and that we should keep it in 
> karbon14. I disagree a bit, why should choice/comfort hurt? And i don't think 
> that koffice programms should look/behave too different when it comes to 
> central pieces like input widgets.

I think it would be great to have this in all koffice apps.

Make sure the validation rules still apply (e.g. if a measure can't be
bigger than 210mm, because that's the width of the page, then one
shouldn't be able to enter "100in"...).

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
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