Hello, allow me to highlight the KDE UI library document titled "Defining menus and toolbars in XML".
Bernd Gehrmann writes: While the action pattern allows to encapsulate actions triggered by the user in an object which can be "plugged" somewhere in the menu bars or toolbars, it does not by itself solve the problem of constructing the menus themselves. In particular, you have build all popup menus in C++ code and explicitly insert the actions in a certain order, under consideration of the style guide for standard actions. This makes it pretty difficult to allow the user to customize the menus or change shortcuts to fit his needs, without changing the source code. This problem is solved by a set of classes called XMLGUI. Basically, this separates actions (coded in C++) from their appearance in menu bars and tool bars (coded in XML). Without modifying any source code, menus can be simply customized by adjusting an XML file. Furthermore, it helps to make sure that standard actions (such as File->Open or Help->About) appear in the locations suggested by the style guide. XMLGUI is especially important for modular programs, where the items appearing in the menu bar may come from many different plugins or parts. KDE's class for toplevel windows, KMainWindow, inherits KXMLGUIClient and therefore supports XMLGUI out of the box. All actions created within it must have the client's actionCollection() as parent. A call to createGUI() will then build the whole set of menu and tool bars defined the applications XML file (conventionally with the suffix ui.rc). More @ http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/kdeqt/kde3arch/xmlgui.html - Gerald ------------------- Gerald Bauer XUL Alliance | http://xul.sourceforge.net United XAML | http://xaml.sourceforge.net Interested in hiring Gerald Bauer? Yes, I'm available. If you know of an opportunity, please contact me today. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ xul-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-announce
