[PyKDE] Support for QWindowsXPStyle

[Phil Thompson]

On Monday 19 May 2003 12:30 am, Ulrich Berning wrote:
> Phil Thompson wrote:
> >On Friday 16 May 2003 8:55 am, Ulrich Berning wrote:
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>the attached sip file together with the attached patch make the
> >>QWindowsXPStyle class available for PyQt.
> >
> >As this class isn't documented I don't think it's part of the official
> > API. I've asked Trolltech and I'll add it if they say it is fully
> > supported.
> >
> >Phil
> >
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>  From the ChangeLog of Qt-3.0.1:
> -----
>
> - MS-Windows XP
> 	This is the first release to fully support Windows XP,
> 	including the new themable GUI styles.
> 	The Windows XP style can only be built as a plugin, which requires
> 	Qt to be configured as a shared library. To build the plugin
> 	you must install a Microsoft Platform SDK for October 2001
> 	or later. Your INCLUDE and LIB environment variables must
> 	point to the respective directories in the SDK installation.
>
> -----
>
> I have configured Qt 3.1.2 on Windows with built in support for the
> WindowsXP style to give the users on that platform the native WindowsXP
> look and feel (my build platform is Windows2000, but it has the required
> SDK installed).
>
> Our application allows the user to configure the style of the
> application at runtime. The user selects the style from a combo box
> filled with the result of QStyleFactory.keys(). So on WindowsXP, the
> user can also select WindowsXP style. On application exit, this
> configuration is saved.
> At next startup, the saved configuration is read, QStyleFactory.create()
> is used to create the style and then it is set for the whole application
> with qApp.setStyle(). This is the point where the application crashes
> when the QWindowsXPStyle class is not available in PyQt.
>
> If the QWindowsXPStyle class is not supported by PyQt, I have to decide
> either to disable this style completely, or to always apply the patch to
> PyQt when a new build of PyQt has to be done.
>
> Disabling the style means the WindowsXP users never can get their native
> look and feel.
>
> When the ChangeLog of Qt states support for the Windows XP style, when
> QSytleFactory::keys() returns "WindowsXP", when
> QStyleFactory::create("WindowsXP") returns an instance of
> QWindowsXPStyle, doesn't this mean that the class QWindowsXPStyle is
> fully supported although it is not documented (yet)?

Trolltech have confirmed that QWindowsXPStyle is part of the API - but only on 
systems running XP, which makes the build process a bit more complicated.

Can you test the current snapshot on an XP system? You will also need the 
current SIP snapshot.

Phil