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Slackware Rox

Posted 05-05-2012 at 07:34 PM by o2cool

So i come here every once in awhile to see if i can be of some help but all of the issues with Slackware are few and far between or solved already.

Thanks guys

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GUI-Interactive: Display a list of QT4 classes

Posted 05-05-2012 at 04:51 AM by rainbowsally
Updated 05-05-2012 at 05:00 AM by rainbowsally

Tags compiling, computer mad science

Today's features:

A stand alone executable to list all of QT4's classes.
A first function for an interactive interpreter for QT funcs and classes
Another simple but interesting parse job.

Requres:

the libLQ download (or your own work-alike hack)

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...eration-34648/

We are delving into QT's system for reasons explained in earlier blog entries. When I tried early...

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GUI Interacitve

Posted 05-04-2012 at 11:06 AM by rainbowsally

This will be a new subtheme under the GUI Programming topic.

No examples or experiments yet, let's just talk about the how's and why's of doing this.

It's time to start thinking about an interactive layer to communicate with the GUI system. This implies an interpreter, which runs in a loop grabbing commands and executing them (if the syntax is correct) and is really not much different from a bytecode compiler which runs an execution loop to do the same, so we can do...

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Smarter popups in desktop apps

Posted 05-03-2012 at 12:42 PM by Skaperen

Sometimes when you make some mistake in an app, like forgetting to enter a subject for email, you get these popups warning of the problem. Then you have to click OK to dismiss the popup and correct the error.

What I would like to see is for the app to also be checking the error condition that caused the problem, and if it gets corrected, take the popup down automatically. Of course this also means the app developer would have to learn about multithreading and how to put the popup...

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QT4 Event preemption: mouse click to get object name

Posted 05-03-2012 at 11:30 AM by rainbowsally
Updated 08-06-2014 at 10:15 AM by rainbowsally

Tags compiling, computer mad science

See also the experiment to dump properties.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...nal-app-34716/

Now that we have event preemption ability, let's get simple again and create ui application that can tell the name of a widget by clicking on it.

[It's simpler than you think but I have uploaded the sources and makefile in case my description of this process is too complicated or confusing.]
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