applet help

[Leigh Willard]

Hello Group,

I have written my first kde application - a kicker applet.  I must admit, I've
had a lot of fun writing this little program for my lab that reminds people when
it's time to do their backups.  However, there is one problem left that I need
to resolve.  When I install my application into the kicker, and I open my
"configure" panel for my applet, the entire kicker panel locks up (blocks) until
I close my configuration window eg. I cannot use any of the kde menus, switch
workspaces, or open applications from the panel.  I have installed some other
third-party kicker applets, and they do the same thing for me.    I am using kde
3.4, but I believe that kde 3.3 also has the same problem.  Are there any applet
programmers out there that can help me?

Thanks!
Leigh Willard
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[Eva Brucherseifer]

Hi Leigh,

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 19:49, Leigh Willard wrote:

> Hello Group,
>
> I have written my first kde application - a kicker applet.  I must admit,
> I've had a lot of fun writing this little program for my lab that reminds
> people when it's time to do their backups.  However, there is one problem
> left that I need to resolve.  When I install my application into the
> kicker, and I open my "configure" panel for my applet, the entire kicker
> panel locks up (blocks) until I close my configuration window eg. I cannot
> use any of the kde menus, switch workspaces, or open applications from the
> panel.  I have installed some other third-party kicker applets, and they do
> the same thing for me.    I am using kde 3.4, but I believe that kde 3.3
> also has the same problem.  Are there any applet programmers out there that
> can help me?

This is strange, as the kicker applets I have running here don't show that
behaviour.

For your own app you should check wether your dialog is modal. there is a
parameter in the contstructor switching between modal and non-modal.

Hope that helps! Otherwise I suggest to ask on kde-devel@....

Greetings,
eva



>
> Thanks!
> Leigh Willard
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[Leigh Willard]

Hi Eva,

Okay I just checked and modal is definitely set to false.  But what I did was
take the code of another application, then re-wrote it with my own code.  So if
there was something wrong in the original code, I have no doubt copied it.

I am going to start work on my second panel applet today, and this time I am
going to start from code that works properly when I click on "configure".
However, I had a hard time finding an example application that doesn't block me
when I click on "configure".  Have you installed any third-party kicker applets?

Thanks for your reply!
Leigh Willard


Eva Brucherseifer wrote:

> Hi Leigh,
>
> On Wednesday 16 November 2005 19:49, Leigh Willard wrote:
>
>>Hello Group,
>>
>>I have written my first kde application - a kicker applet.  I must admit,
>>I've had a lot of fun writing this little program for my lab that reminds
>>people when it's time to do their backups.  However, there is one problem
>>left that I need to resolve.  When I install my application into the
>>kicker, and I open my "configure" panel for my applet, the entire kicker
>>panel locks up (blocks) until I close my configuration window eg. I cannot
>>use any of the kde menus, switch workspaces, or open applications from the
>>panel.  I have installed some other third-party kicker applets, and they do
>>the same thing for me.    I am using kde 3.4, but I believe that kde 3.3
>>also has the same problem.  Are there any applet programmers out there that
>>can help me?
>
>
> This is strange, as the kicker applets I have running here don't show that
> behaviour.
>
> For your own app you should check wether your dialog is modal. there is a
> parameter in the contstructor switching between modal and non-modal.
>
> Hope that helps! Otherwise I suggest to ask on kde-devel@....
>
> Greetings,
> eva
>
>
>
>
>>Thanks!
>>Leigh Willard
>>leigh@...
>>_______________________________________________
>>kde-women mailing list
>>kde-women@...
>>https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-women
>
>

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