[Gambas-user] Why is MyMainWindow inheriting from QWidget (gb.qt4, CWindow width)?

[Leandro Santiago]

Ow, a diff file is very util :-)

2010/6/2 Leandro Santiago <leandrosansilva at ...626...>:
> Hello, I'm looking at gb.qt4 code (I'm not a very good C++ programmer
> :-) ) and I saw that the gambas3 main window (MyMainWindow) has
> QWidget as parent class, but QMainWindow serves exactly to this.
>
> It's because gambas applications don't have full integration with
> other qt applications. For example, I use KDE with bespin theme. There
> is a plasmoid called xbar and it implements a global menu, like in OS
> X. All native qt4 applications can use this resource, but gambas apps
> can't.
>
> There is a method in QMainWindow called setMenuBar that set a menubar
> as native menubar. So I just changed MyMainWindow parent to
> QMenuWindow and added setMenuBar(menuBar) at MyMainWindow::configure()
> method. Simple applications (with menubar) I created work fine with
> globalmenu integration, but now gambas IDE is separated in a lot of
> windows, each one with a component (text editor, toolbar, widgets
> hierarch, etc), but uses globalmenu, at least :-)
>
> I think if gambas wants to be ported to other plataforms (like Mac and
> Windows), has a native and integred look is really important.
>
> What do the main developers think about this?
>
> ps: where can I find a small "guideline" to write gambas components
> like gb.qt, gb.gtk, etc?
>
> Sorry for my bad English.
>
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