On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 12:37:45PM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > I just had an interesting journey in QFileDialog implementation. The > functionality is all there but it's all private :-( > It looks very easy to add any button we'd like there. > > >Another option would > >be to create our own dialog using QDirModel. > > There are basically 3 solutions: > > 1) hack QFileDialog and use it until the functionality appear in Qt4.2 > or Qt4.3. This seems very easy to do (just make addWidget() protected > instead of private or just add the buttons in setupToolButtons()). > > 2) stay with Q3FileDialog and just use addToolButton. Minimal change, > minimal risk, and we postpone the porting to QFileDialog unti Qt4.2. > > 3) Create our own widget using QDirModel. Maximum risk, maximum change, > but way more interesting!
4) Extend QFileDialog without hacking. Just create the beast, hunt through the list of child widgets and layouts until you find something appropriate, and add a new button as child widget there. Andre'
