[mythtv] Can I use plain Qt widgets inside the MythTV framework (was: How do I use the UIManagedTreeListType widget?)

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Wed Aug 4 21:43:27 EDT 2004


On Wednesday 04 August 2004 09:33 pm, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
> Isaac Richards wrote:
> >On Wednesday 04 August 2004 05:06 pm, Morten wrote:
> >>Hi again!
> >>
> >>Thanks a lot for your fast responses. Seems like I'm not the only one
> >> who's been wondering about that control...
> >>
> >>Got a related question though. Can I utilize plain Qt widgets inside the
> >>MythTV GUI framework then? (AFAIR there's some pretty decent widgets to
> >>pick from...)
> >
> >No.
>
> A quick question on this.  I was getting reading to rework the watch
> recording info menu as we talked about before.  One thing I was thinking
> of doing was instead of having just buttons in a vertical column, was to
> use a QT widget with scrolling to maybe offer a vertical list of choices
> that would scroll up and down since it seems that MythPopup uses QT
> exclusively.  Would this still be a good way to go or would you rather
> see it go another route?

I'd prefer for all new code to only use the internal uitypes -- the buttonlist 
type would be ideal for this.

Isaac


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