On Sep 17, 2010, at 3:53 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Stephan Witt wrote: > > ... its little bit hard to follow the thread when people dont kill the unused > top lines.... > >>> There is now a new checkbox in frontend/qt/ui/PrefInput.ui which determines >>> the role of Control and Apple keys, but this new UI element will appear for >>> all versions of Qt and all platforms, even though it has an effect only >>> with Qt >= 4.6 (in the other files, my changes are only applied when the >>> right OS and version is detected). In order to make this checkbox disappear >>> when it's not needed, what is the best approach? Is there a Qt or LyX >>> directive for conditional UI elements that I could use in PrefInput.ui >>> (similar to compiler directives as in my previous post)? My guess is that >>> the answer is no. >> >> I don't know, but I would look for a function to hide the UI element >> conditionally. > > if you mean hide for other archs on solution would be to have normal rc > variable and in gui code put something like > #ifndef MACOSX > chanegBindingCB.setVisible(false); > #endif
That's exactly what I was looking for! And regarding Stefan's observation that the prescription on the Wiki for a plist item for this Qt attribute doesn't work: yes, without patching Qt I can currently only see application-specific mechanisms for setting this "dontSwap" attribute. So if I put Pavel's suggestion in, would my checkbox patch be acceptable? As I said, I'd be OK without GUI, but I don't really think it will hurt anyone to have it in there, with the default being not to change the key mapping. Jens
