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How to create a vertical panel from a script?

Sat May 29, 2010 4:41 pm
I want to create a vertical panel in my init js, but all i can get is horizontal panel! Can i create a vertical one?

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Re: How to create a vertical panel from a script?

Sun May 30, 2010 7:41 am
Aaron J. Seigo said: <<or you could do "desktop console" in krunner, then enter something like this in there:
panel = new Panel
panel.location = 'left'>>

But it creates horizontal panel!!!!!
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Re: How to create a vertical panel from a script?

Sun May 30, 2010 8:18 am
I was wrong!
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panel = new Panel
panel.location = 'left'

creates vertical panel, but its width is equal to screen width by default, so it looks like horizontal panel!
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Re: How to create a vertical panel from a script?

Mon May 31, 2010 8:34 pm
EDIT:
I looked into the issue. To make your panel smaller, you need to do something like this (it'll make it 100 px long):

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var mypanel = new Panel
mypanel.location = 'left'
mypanel.length = 48
mypanel.height = 100
mypanel.alignment = "center"


This should do the trick. Notice that "length" for vertical panels means the height and "height" the length of the panel. (i.e., they are swapped compared to horizontal panels).

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Re: How to create a vertical panel from a script?

Tue Jun 01, 2010 9:35 am
einar wrote:EDIT:
I looked into the issue. To make your panel smaller, you need to do something like this (it'll make it 100 px long):

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var mypanel = new Panel
mypanel.location = 'left'
mypanel.length = 48
mypanel.height = 100
mypanel.alignment = "center"


This should do the trick. Notice that "length" for vertical panels means the height and "height" the length of the panel. (i.e., they are swapped compared to horizontal panels).

Thank you, i've understood it. With default length and height vertical panel looks like horizontal - that was my problem!
But! There is another question. The maximum panel height i can get with init script is equal to 1/3 of my screen height (i.e. 256=768/3) even if i set
panel.height=700, for example.
How can i override this limit? (OS is kubuntu 10.4)
(p.s.: via update script i can set height as i wish)
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Re: How to create a vertical panel from a script?

Tue Jun 01, 2010 12:38 pm
einar wrote:Notice that "length" for vertical panels means the height and "height" the length of the panel. (i.e., they are swapped compared to horizontal panels).

There's another interesting thing. When you modify already created vertical panel (via update script) its "height" becomes its height and its "length" becomes its length (as it should be).
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Re: How to create a vertical panel from a script?

Tue Jun 01, 2010 2:30 pm
I suggest you email plasma-devel@kde.org asking if it's a feature or a bug. Providing sample code and showing simple test cases to reproduce would also help.
Also, what do you mean by "update script"?

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Re: How to create a vertical panel from a script?

Wed Jun 02, 2010 5:54 am
einar wrote:Also, what do you mean by "update script"?


From PlasmaDesktopScripting:
There are three ways that scripts can be executed in plasma-desktop:

* on first run: when plasma-desktop is started without any pre-existing configuration, any scripts in $APPDATA/plasma-desktop/init/ with a ".js" suffix are run...
* on update: when plasma-desktop is started, it will check in `kde4-config --path data`/plasma-desktop/updates/ with a ".js" suffix for scripts that have not yet been run...
* interactively...

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