Re: [Basket-devel] Questioning

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Le jeudi 19 juillet 2007, Alex Gontmakher a =E9crit=A0:
> > Actually, I'd be a grateful if some tiny task was pointed out to me,
> > something well suited for a QT newbie.  It might kickstart my
> > understanding on the code better than just reading, and trying to
> > figure out how it works.
>
> It might not be tiny (i.e., it might require quite some understanding of
> the design - prepare for 2-3 hours of wading through the code), but the
> actual amount of code involved should not be large.

Some toughts/indications:

Yes, all note types (text, image, link...) inherit the Note class, and they=
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can reimplement a function to return a tooltip, or at least informations=20
displayable in the tooltip (as I remember).
So you can grab the screenshot when BasKet Note Pads ask to the link note w=
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informations to display in the tooltip.
Possibly modifying the code so that this information can be a HTML markup, =
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only plain-text.
While easy, the disadvantage of this method is that the interface is blocke=
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while the LinkNote retreive the website capture, and user must have a good=
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internet connexion, and the code must be sure enough to not hang up forever=
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when no internet connexion is available.

Ideally, the image should be retreived in another thread, the tooltip shoul=
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be immediatly shown, and when the capture is received, the program update t=
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tooltip to include the image.
I don't think updating the tooltip is doable in Qt3, but you can search.
=46or instance, when you listen to a music in Amarok and move your cursor o=
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the Amarok systray icon, the "current time" is updated every second.
So this can perhapse be possible.
I advise you to look at the SVN code of Amarok to know how they do that.

> There is the following annoying thing that need to be fixed... I don't
> think I'll get around to do that myself very soon... So: In a popup menu =
of
> a basket, there is an action called "Add sibling basket". Problem is, what
> it does is not really adding a sibling, but rather adding another node to
> the parent of a current basket (i.e., the new node, instead of appearing
> next to the given basket, appears at the end of the list).
>
> I believe you get what the desired behavior is :)

Ah, very good idea.
I should have tought to that before:
Junior Jobs, as they are called in KDE.
An excellent way to start discovering the code.
I will think about that and post ideas I find.