porting int options managed by radio button groups to kde4

Hi,

It seems that in kde4 KConfigDialog can't manage int configuration options with
a radio button group. We have a few options in this situation in kmymoney.
According to this http://www.nabble.com/KConfigDialog-to9326936.html#a9327787 
thread the way to go is to define a bool option for each radio button.
Should we follow this path or change the editor widget of the option?

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Regards,

Cristian Oneţ



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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Cristian Oneţ <onet.cristian@...> wrote:

Hi,

It seems that in kde4 KConfigDialog can't manage int configuration options with
a radio button group. We have a few options in this situation in kmymoney.
According to this http://www.nabble.com/KConfigDialog-to9326936.html#a9327787
thread the way to go is to define a bool option for each radio button.
Should we follow this path or change the editor widget of the option?

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It kind of sucks to define a bool for each one. It feels like html.
Do you think there is another suitable method to do it?

Regards,
Alvaro

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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Alvaro Soliverez<asoliverez@...> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Cristian Oneţ <onet.cristian@...>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems that in kde4 KConfigDialog can't manage int configuration options
>> with
>> a radio button group. We have a few options in this situation in kmymoney.
>> According to this
>> http://www.nabble.com/KConfigDialog-to9326936.html#a9327787
>> thread the way to go is to define a bool option for each radio button.
>> Should we follow this path or change the editor widget of the option?
>>
>> --
>
> It kind of sucks to define a bool for each one. It feels like html.
> Do you think there is another suitable method to do it?

Well I have tried changing it to an Enum but without any luck.
Changing the option too "Bool" and naming the corresponding radio
button to kcfg_optionName worked but as you said this sucks because a
radio button group by definition can have only one value. It models an
option with one value from a defined set not several options as the
"Bool" model (since there is no constraint to force two "Bool"
options, in the same radio button group, to have only one "true"
value).

I'll try to check if we can find a better way. If not the UI files
must be changed. What do you use to edit the UI files? I use
qtassistant (qt4 version) but it seems to change a lot more in the UI
files than I actually changed since opening the file. Is it because
the UI files from kmymoney haven't been edited yet with the
qtassistant from qt4? If yes is it OK to commit the UI files with the
changes automatically done by the designer?

Thanks,

Cristian

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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Cristian Oneţ <onet.cristian@...> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Alvaro Soliverez<asoliverez@...> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 2:30 AM, Cristian Oneţ <onet.cristian@...>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It seems that in kde4 KConfigDialog can't manage int configuration options
>> with
>> a radio button group. We have a few options in this situation in kmymoney.
>> According to this
>> http://www.nabble.com/KConfigDialog-to9326936.html#a9327787
>> thread the way to go is to define a bool option for each radio button.
>> Should we follow this path or change the editor widget of the option?
>>
>> --
>
> It kind of sucks to define a bool for each one. It feels like html.
> Do you think there is another suitable method to do it?

Well I have tried changing it to an Enum but without any luck.
Changing the option too "Bool" and naming the corresponding radio
button to kcfg_optionName worked but as you said this sucks because a
radio button group by definition can have only one value. It models an
option with one value from a defined set not several options as the
"Bool" model (since there is no constraint to force two "Bool"
options, in the same radio button group, to have only one "true"
value).

I'll try to check if we can find a better way. If not the UI files
must be changed. What do you use to edit the UI files? I use
qtassistant (qt4 version) but it seems to change a lot more in the UI
files than I actually changed since opening the file. Is it because
the UI files from kmymoney haven't been edited yet with the
qtassistant from qt4? If yes is it OK to commit the UI files with the
changes automatically done by the designer?

Thanks,

Cristian

What I used to do in html is have a method to check that all other bools were false whenever a bool changes to true. It is a band aid to have consistency, but it's useful in those cases. An Enum won't work in this case, because behing the enum template, it is an int too.

The UI files were converted with a script, and have not been used with QtAssistant yet. Is it similar to Qt Designer? That's the one I would recommend using.

Regards,
Alvaro


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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Alvaro Soliverez<asoliverez@...> wrote:
> What I used to do in html is have a method to check that all other bools
> were false whenever a bool changes to true. It is a band aid to have
> consistency, but it's useful in those cases. An Enum won't work in this
> case, because behing the enum template, it is an int too.
According to this
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=122203375330643&w=2 thread we
could keep the options as they were but change the QButtonGroup to
KButtonGroup. What do you think about this solution? I think it would
be the cleanest solution.

> The UI files were converted with a script, and have not been used with
> QtAssistant yet. Is it similar to Qt Designer? That's the one I would
> recommend using.
Sorry, I meant that I use Qt Designer (so many names to remember :) ).

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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Cristian Oneţ<onet.cristian@...> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Alvaro Soliverez<asoliverez@...> wrote:
>> What I used to do in html is have a method to check that all other bools
>> were false whenever a bool changes to true. It is a band aid to have
>> consistency, but it's useful in those cases. An Enum won't work in this
>> case, because behing the enum template, it is an int too.
> According to this
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=122203375330643&w=2 thread we
> could keep the options as they were but change the QButtonGroup to
> KButtonGroup. What do you think about this solution? I think it would
> be the cleanest solution.

As a matter a of fact the answer is even more simple the group box
does not work since the widget has the type Q3ButtonGroup which I
think is not supported anymore in the kde4 KConfigDialog :) so the
porting will consist of updating all widgets from the UI files.

>> The UI files were converted with a script, and have not been used with
>> QtAssistant yet. Is it similar to Qt Designer? That's the one I would
>> recommend using.
> Sorry, I meant that I use Qt Designer (so many names to remember :) ).
Qt Assistant was the qt3 version of qt designer :).

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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Cristian Oneţ <onet.cristian@...> wrote:

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Alvaro Soliverez<asoliverez@...> wrote:
> What I used to do in html is have a method to check that all other bools
> were false whenever a bool changes to true. It is a band aid to have
> consistency, but it's useful in those cases. An Enum won't work in this
> case, because behing the enum template, it is an int too.

According to this
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=122203375330643&w=2 thread we
could keep the options as they were but change the QButtonGroup to
KButtonGroup. What do you think about this solution? I think it would
be the cleanest solution.

Yes, I think that's the best way to go.
 

> The UI files were converted with a script, and have not been used with
> QtAssistant yet. Is it similar to Qt Designer? That's the one I would
> recommend using.

Sorry, I meant that I use Qt Designer (so many names to remember :) ).

From what I know, the Qt Designer for Qt4 adds some info. Just be careful about layouts and stuff like that. I sometimes end up modifying the files with Kate if it is a small change. Just to make sure the change is exactly what I want it to be.

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