Re: [Lmuse-developer] plugins window size and sliders with scales

[Robert J. <spa...@gm...>]

Hi Orcan,

2011/9/12 Orcan Ogetbil <oge...@gm...>:
> Hiyo,
>
> The horizontal size of the plugins window bothered me for a while. I
> always have to expand it horizontally it to access the sliders. I
> wanted to get to the heart of the problem.
>
> The heart of the problem lies in Slider::sizeHint() . This function is
> supposed to be const in order for Qt to use it to get the size hint
> for the Slider objects. It seems to me that Robert switched this to a
> non-const function in an attempt to incorporate the size of the scale
> for those sliders that use a scale. Adding the const back breaks the
> compilation because of some invalid typecast within Robert's hack.
>
> Now the question is: Do we really need this hack, or should we revert
> this to a const function, so Qt understands the size hint of the
> Sliders, and the plugin window has a proper initial size? It seems to
> me that no Slider that we have makes use of the scales.

The commenting out of the const is definitely my creation, I did that
a few places during our move to qt4 just to get it to compile...
atleast I left a small trail of bread crumbs ;)

If we don't use the scales feature I'm sure it will be okay to fix
this up properly.

Thanks,
Robert

>
> Cheers,
> Orcan
>
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