Hi folks,

I was programming a JavaScript-Plasmoid for quite some time and I also was really happy by doing that

But with the release of KDE 4.5 one of the functionalities doesn't work any more. With KDE 4.4 I used a widget class called "KColorButton" for choosing an arbitrary color in the settings-dialog. Here a small code extract of my config.ui file:

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<item row="13" column="1">
  <widget class="KColorButton" name="kcfg_customCharacterColor">
    <property name="color">
      <color>
        <red>255</red>
        <green>255</green>
        <blue>255</blue>
      </color>
    </property>
    <property name="defaultColor">
      <color>
        <red>0</red>
        <green>255</green>
        <blue>0</blue>
      </color>
    </property>
  </widget>
</item>


That worked very well for me (with KDE 4.4). But with KDE 4.5 the settings dialog doesn't show anything.

Using plasmoidviewer the konsole output tells me the following:

"QFormBuilder was unable to create a widget of the class 'KColorButton'."

Knows anybody anything about that problem or has anybody an idea, how I could get back the functionality of a "color chooser" (like KColorButton) into the settings dialog?

I don't know what's wrong with your code, but KColorButton works for me in 4.5.1/.2 , using the Python bindings -- so it's still there.

Can you post a link to your Javascript Applet so I can test it on trunk?

@toyg: thanks for your hint. A few days ago I also found some plasmoid scripts written in Python on kde-look.org using KColorButton successfully. Unfortunately I couldn't find a JavaScript Plasmoid using KColorButton...

@bcooksley: of course Here we are...

• Applet: http://gerardo.homelinux.org/devel/matr ... eta.tar.gz
• How it works with KDE 4.4:
  
• How it doesn't work with 4.5:
  

Thanks in advance...

Unfortunately it fails to start

http://imagebin.ca/view/PlJkoa.html'

@cbooksley: I added a small workaround to prevent my applet to fail on start in trunk (I hope ). Could you please take another look? Thanks...

http://gerardo.homelinux.org/devel/matrix_v05_beta_with_workaround.tar.gz

The colour picker provided by KColorButton, and the view itself, appeared as expected on my Trunk system.

Cool, thanks for testing!

But... what means that exactly? That my applet will not only work in trunk but also in the coming releases (e.g. KDE 4.6)?

Correct, as KDE 4.6 has not yet been branched, therefore trunk = KDE 4.6.