On October 1, 2009, Matteo Agostinelli wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 19:29, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote: > > On September 30, 2009, Matteo Agostinelli wrote: > >> Also, I would like to add that this is not meant to be a replacement of > >> the existing calculator but an optional "enhanced" calculator, since it > >> requires an additional external dependency (libqalculate). So IMO the > >> current choice of branding (name and icon) could be acceptable. If there > > > > so i finally got it built and found some time to test it. some input: > > > > * it uses QHttp; it must use KIO instead > > > > * the network access in QalculateEngine::updateExchangeRates() is > > blocking rather than async > > Is it ok if I use KIO::NetAccess:download()? I see in the > documentation that "The functions appear to be blocking, but the Qt > event loop continues running while the operations are handled. This > means that the GUI will not freeze." So is this function suitable in > this case?
i believe this only allows for repaints, not user interaction with other widgets or further processing of non-event driven application code which is the important bit in this case. it needs to be properly async. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks
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