KDE 4.7 PyKDE API Reference

- KDE's Python API

# KTipDialog Class Reference

`from PyKDE4.kdeui import *`

Inherits: KDialog → QDialog → QWidget → QObject

## Detailed Description

A Tip-of-the-Day dialog.

This dialog class presents a tip-of-the-day.

Author:
  Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel <mhk@caldera.de>

## Methods

| __init__ (self, KTipDatabase database, QWidget parent=0)
| __init__ (self, KTipDialog a0)
bool | eventFilter (self, QObject a0, QEvent a1)

## Static Methods

| setShowOnStart (bool show)
| showMultiTip (QWidget parent, QStringList tipFiles, bool force=0)
| showTip (QWidget parent, QString tipFile=QString(), bool force=0)
| showTip (QString tipFile=QString(), bool force=0)

## Method Documentation

__init__ | ( | self, |
|  | KTipDatabase | database,
|  | QWidget | parent=0
| ) |  |  |

Construct a tip dialog.

Parameters:

  | database | TipDatabase that should be used by the TipDialog. The KTipDialog will take ownership of the database, including deleting it.
  | parent | Parent widget of TipDialog.

__init__ | ( | self, |
|  | KTipDialog | a0
| ) |  |  |

bool eventFilter | ( | self, |
|  | QObject | a0,
|  | QEvent | a1
| ) |  |  |

## Static Method Documentation

setShowOnStart | ( | bool | show
| ) |  |  |

Toggles the start behavior.

Normally, the user can disable the display of the tip in the dialog. This is just a way to change this setting from outside.

showMultiTip | ( | QWidget | parent,
|  | QStringList | tipFiles,
|  | bool | force=0
| ) |  |  |

Shows a tip

This method behaves essentially as the one above, but expects a list of tips

Parameters:

  | parent | Parent widget of TipDialog.
  | tipFiles | A List of tip files. Each has be relative to the "data" resource of KStandardDirs
  | force | If true, the dialog is show, even when the users disabled it.

showTip | ( | QWidget | parent,
|  | QString | tipFile=QString(),
|  | bool | force=0
| ) |  |  |

Shows a tip.

This methods calls showTip() with the applications main window as parent.

showTip | ( | QString | tipFile=QString(),
|  | bool | force=0
| ) |  |  |

Shows a tip.

This methods calls showTip() with the applications main window as parent.