class KDockMainWindow

Public Methods

•  KDockMainWindow ( QWidget* parent = 0L, const char *name = 0L, WFlags f = WType_TopLevel | WDestructiveClose )
• virtual  ~KDockMainWindow ()
• KDockManager*  manager ()
• void  setMainDockWidget ( KDockWidget* )
• KDockWidget*  getMainDockWidget ()
• KDockWidget*  createDockWidget ( const QString& name, const QPixmap &pixmap, QWidget* parent = 0L, const QString& strCaption = 0L, const QString& strTabPageLabel = " ")
• void  writeDockConfig (QDomElement &base)
• void  readDockConfig (QDomElement &base)
• void  writeDockConfig ( KConfig* c = 0L, QString group = QString::null )
• void  readDockConfig ( KConfig* c = 0L, QString group = QString::null )
• void  activateDock ()
• QPopupMenu*  dockHideShowMenu ()
• void  makeDockVisible ( KDockWidget* dock )
• void  makeDockInvisible ( KDockWidget* dock )
• void  makeWidgetDockVisible ( QWidget* widget )
• void  setView ( QWidget* )

Signals

• void  dockWidgetHasUndocked (KDockWidget*)

Protected Slots

• void  slotDockWidgetUndocked ()

Protected Members

• KDockWidget* mainDockWidget
• KDockManager* dockManager

Private Members

• friend class KDockManager
• Forward KDockMainWindowPrivate
• KDockMainWindowPrivate *d

Detailed Description

A special kind of KMainWindow that is able to have dockwidget child widgets (and member of the dockwidget class set).

The main widget should be a KDockWidget where other KDockWidget can be docked to the left, right, top, bottom or to the middle. Note: dock to the middle means to drop on a dockwidget and to unite them to a new widget, a tab control. That tab widget is a KDockTabCtl .

Furthermore, the KDockMainWindow has got the KDocManager and some data about the dock states.

If you've got some dockwidgets, you can dock them to the dockmainwindow to initialize a start scene: Here an example:

 DockApplication::DockApplication( const char* name) : KDockMainWindow( name)
 {
   ...
   KDockWidget* mainDock;
   mainDock = createDockWidget( "Falk's MainDockWidget", mainPixmap, 0L, "main_dock_widget");
   AnyContentsWidget* cw = new AnyContentsWidget( mainDock);
   mainDock->setWidget( cw);
   // allow others to dock to the 4 sides
   mainDock->setDockSite(KDockWidget::DockCorner);
   // forbit docking abilities of mainDock itself
   mainDock->setEnableDocking(KDockWidget::DockNone);
   setView( mainDock); // central widget in a KDE mainwindow
   setMainDockWidget( mainDock); // master dockwidget
   ...
   KDockWidget* dockLeft;
   dockLeft = createDockWidget( "Intially left one", anyOtherPixmap, 0L, i18n("The left dockwidget"));
   AnotherWidget* aw = new AnotherWidget( dockLeft);
   dockLeft->setWidget( aw);
   dockLeft->manualDock( mainDock,              // dock target
                         KDockWidget::DockLeft, // dock site
                         20 );                  // relation target/this (in percent)
   ...

Docking is fully dynamical at runtime. That means you can always move dockwidgets via drag and drop.

And last but not least you can use the popupmenu for showing or hiding any controlled dockwidget of this class and insert it to your main menu bar or anywhere else.

[private]

Constructs a dockmainwindow. It calls its base class constructor and does additional things concerning to the dock stuff:

• information about the dock state of this' children gets initialized
• a dockmanager is created...
• ...and gets initialized
• the main dockwidget is set to 0

Parameters:

name	object name

[virtual]

Destructs a dockmainwindow.

Returns the dockmanager of this. (see KDockManager)

Returns: pointer to the wanted dockmanager

Sets a new main dockwidget. Additionally, the toolbar is re-initialized.

Parameters:

_	dockwidget that become the new main dockwidget

Returns the main dockwidget.

Returns: pointer to the main dockwidget

This is one of the most important methods! The KDockMainWindow creates a new dockwidget object here that usually should encapsulate the user's widget. The new dockwidget is automatically taken under control by the dockmanager of the dockmainwindow.

Parameters:

name	QObject name (default dockwidget caption)
pixmap	window icon (for instance shown when docked as tabwidget entry)
parent	parent widget for the new dockwidget
strCaption	window title (shown when toplevel)
strTabPageLabel	title of the tab page (visible when in tab page mode), if it is "", only the icon will be shown; if it is 0L, the label is set to strCaption

Returns: a pointer to the new created dockwidget

Saves the current dock window layout into a DOM tree below the given element.

Reads the current dock window layout from a DOM tree below the given element.

It writes the current dock state in the given section of KConfig.

Parameters:

c	KDE class for saving configurations
group	name of section to write to

It reads the current dock state from the given section of KConfig.

Parameters:

c	KDE class for saving configurations
group	name of section to read from

It runs through all dockwidgets which are under control of the dockmanager and calls show() for every encapsulated widget and show() for the dockwidget itself if it is not in tab mode. Additionally, if the main dockwidget is not a QDialog, it will be shown.

Returns a popup menu that contains entries for all controlled dockwidgets making hiding and showing them possible.

Returns: the wanted popup menu

This method shows the given dockwidget. The clue is that it also considers the dockwidget could be a tab page and must set to be the activate one.

Parameters:

dock	the dockwidget that is to be shown

This method hides the given dockwidget.

Parameters:

dock	the dockwidget that is to be shown

This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience. It differs from the above function only in what argument(s) it accepts.

This method calls the base class method. If the given widget inherits KDockWidget, applyToWidget(this) is called.

Parameters:

_	any widget that should become the main view

[signal]

Signals a certain dockwidget is undocked now.

[protected]

[protected]

[protected slots slot]

Called whenever one of the dockwidgets of this has been undocked.

[private]

• Author: Max Judin (documentation: Falk Brettschneider).