[Kommander-devel] Re: kommander-devel

[Eric Laffoon]

On Thursday 14 February 2008 8:40:23 am Dan Cherry wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 February 2008 12:54:22 pm Eric Laffoon wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 February 2008 6:12:14 am Andras Mantia wrote:
> > > On Sunday 10 February 2008, Dan Cherry wrote:
[snip]
> > Dan, if you pull SVN you will have the official release a week early. It
> > could also be handy if we ned to do any bug fixes and/or a bug fix
> > release/patch. I don't know about Andras but I'm burned out. I have a few
> > more tools to release, but I feel we fell short on all the examples we
> > probably should have done. We should have more on site. So a good thing
> > to do is see where you have questions and we can work up some more
> > example dialogs. We could have a package of "extra examples" to release
> > on site.
>
> Eric, I updated SVN for kommander & the plugins.  No problems, and I'll let
> you know if I hit any bugs.  I'll be glad to go over the docs and examples
> to see if I can spot anything that would lead to questions (though I won't
> be able to get to it until tomorrow).

The release won't be for a week, and I'm doing a show this weekend. Andras is 
working on Quanta. There is only a mild time issue as we want to have some 
things done by next weekend, and we can always do more later.
>
> Also, you sent a portion of createWidget code last week.  If you can give
> me a working kmdr file that does what you were building, I'd be glad to
> tutorialize it (don't know if that's a word, but you know what I mean).  I
> was able to take your code snippet, and create a simple combobox in a table
> with no problems, but didn't know where you were going from there.  I'll
> also take a look at popups to see if I can help (haven't had a chance yet).

I have "entrepenuer syndrome" on that one. This is such a quirky feature when 
you want to get fancy with it that I think the only way to do it is for me to 
just do this function. I could send you some of my examples, but your head 
would explode. :-O
>
> Finally, is there a 'destroyWidget' (planned??), since dynamic creations
> tend to accumulate (like rabbits).  I know you can make them invisible, but
> if you create 'em on the fly, you need to be able to get rid of 'em on the
> fly.

Funny thing about that. It seems widgets are automatically destroyed on the 
fly, at least in tables if you replace them with text or a different widget. 
Thus the function of value proves to be widgetExists(). Unfortunately if you 
don't do things just right you will get either an error or you will get a 
situation where you can no longer put a created widget into a table cell. In 
other places it's less of an issue and in the ToolBox widget you can 
expressly remove widgets.

As far as the rest goes, these widgets are gone once the window is closed. 
They have no persistence beyond the instance.
>
> By the way, GREAT WORK on the new parser, widgets and docs.  This is
> becoming a very powerful piece of software.  I'm impressed!
>
> Thanks,

Thank you. I'm hoping that given the popularity so far of Kommander that this 
works for a successful fund raiser to cover sponsoring Andras full time to 
work on our projects. I certainly think he is worth whatever I can pay him. I 
happen to agree with you that the new release is a truly impressive jump. If 
you want to really compare, build some things with the new features or better 
yet take something you built before and save it to a new name. Then revise 
the design to reflect the new features... then compare the two. It's huge.

Did you get the lates from SVN yesterday after it was frozen? Try the Tools 
menu under Editor. Have a look at the included examples. Did you see the 
editor demo? I'll have more soon. For now I have to get busy with work I've 
been putting off.


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Eric Laffoon
Project Lead - kdewebdev module