Re: [Rosegarden-devel] QPopupMenu to QMenu for right click track buttons

[Emanuel R. <xb...@gm...>]

2009/2/12 D. Michael McIntyre <ros...@gm...>:
> The traditional Rosegarden way to assign a device/instrument to a track was to
> right click on the track label and navigate through two levels of popup menu.
>
> http://rosegardenmusic.com/tutorials/pixmaps/select-midi.png
>
> This used to use QPopupMenu, which no longer exists.  Emanuel attempted to
> rewrite this to use QMenu instead, but the implementation is totally broken.
>
I remember to carefully convert it, so
I don't think it is *totally* broken. I may think about it on Friday.


> The porting docs are terribly vague, and I'm not coming up with anything
> similar in the body of code out there to copy as a model.
>
> While I'd like the feather in my cap for solving this one, I'm afraid I'm at
> the point where it's silly to keep piddling around trying stupid things.

> The
> only way I can possibly think to get this kind of functionality to work again
> is to rip all of it out and throw it away and build something new from
> scratch.
Not just at the moment, but let me see if I'm able to fix it before trashing it.


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Emanuel Rumpf