[PyKDE] Problem with dynamic tooltip

[stsao]

Hi,

That worked fine.   I'll try to remember to do that in the future.

Again, thanks for the help.
ST

At 05:49 PM 11/30/2001 +0000, Phil Thompson wrote:
>Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, stsao wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Thanks to Donovan, the problem has been resolved.   Please see his reply
> > > below.
> > >
> > > Donavan, were you able to see the other problem (background color 
> color of
> > > QMultiLineEdit not updated properly)?
> >
> > Part of the problem is that you're overriding a virtual method marked
> > "for internal use only". If you want to do this, it's a good idea to call
> > the base class version from your override.
>
>That's the right thing to do - it doesn't matter that it's marked for
>internal use - you want to supplement the existing behaviour, not
>replace it.
>
> > I get the same behaviour here as you.
> >
> > To fix it, you need to call  the same method in the base class. I don't
> > know off the top of my head how to do that in python, so my brute force
> > fix is to make another method, mysetBackgroundColor.
> >
> > def mysetBackgroundColor(self, qColor):
> >      palette = self.palette()
> >      palette.setColor(QColorGroup.Base, qColor)
> >      self.setPalette(palette)
> >      self.setBackgroundColor(qColor)
>
>Just call the superclass method explicitly like you do with ctors, ie...
>
>      def setBackgroundColor(self, qColor):
>          palette = self.palette()
>          palette.setColor(QColorGroup.Base, qColor)
>          self.setPalette(palette)
>          QMultiLineEdit.setBackgroundColor(self, qColor)
>
>Phil


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