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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Precision (Re: koffice/kpresenter)
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2004-04-26 8:34:05
Message-ID: 200404261031.50943.nicolasg () snafu ! de
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On Monday 26 April 2004 09:05, Thomas Zander wrote:
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> On Sunday 25 April 2004 22:05, Nicolas Goutte wrote:
> > Thank you for your email!
> >
> > I think that I have now identified explicitely what I have not liked
> > implicitely with the unit widgets.
> >
> > So I do not need to have a value and unit kept by the KOffice application
> > but I must do the work in the unit widget. And one work would be that if
> > a user does not change the value, it should not change at all...
>
> To be precise; internally everything should be stored in pt, and the
> units-widget should be seen as a 'view' on those pt values.
>
> Typing 1mm will convert that internally to pt; and then back again when you
> want to show it in the GUI.

Yes, that would be the far goal.

To me, it seems to need many changes in the code to do that. So if I am alone 
on that code, it will probably not be for KOffice 1.4. (That is why I would
first prefer the "no change" policy.)

> Elsewhere in this thread David showed that when using koUnit you will
> indeed get 1mm, instead of 1.000001 mm

Yes, but the use of these member functions of koUnit were removed from the 
unit widgets, as they brought problems and the unit widget did it anyway by 
themselves.

>
> Cheers!

Have a nice day!

>
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> Thomas Zander
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