[Fedora-trans-ar] Re: Arabic issue #26: The origin in RTL layout should be positioned at the right edge of the window

[Munzir Taha]

On Yau al-Thulatha 27 Muharram 1426 11:26, Lars Knoll wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 March 2005 07:06, Munzir Taha wrote:
> > Qt Version: qt-x11-opensource-4.0.0-b2-snapshot-20050302
> > System: Linux localhost 2.6.10-1mdk i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor
> > 3200+
> >
> > CODE:
> > qPushButton->setGeometry(0, 0, 75, 100);
> >
> > PROBLEM:
> > After an application has set RTL layout, the origin should be positioned
> > at the right edge of the window or device, and the number representing
> > the horizontal coordinate should increase as you move left.
>
> No. This would break a huge amount of code out there.
>
> Qt's coordinate system doesn't change when the layout direction changes. If
> we did so, you could be sure that almost everything would break and no
> application developer would manage to write apps that work both LTR and
> RTL.

Surely, you know better than me and M$ but this is why I am telling you this.
http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/msdn/mirror.aspx
or maybe I have misunderstood their point of coordinate transformation?

> The solution to this is to not hardcode geometries of subwidgets but use
> layouts which do all the work for you. If you hardcode the position you get
> what you ask for.

Lars! Will you please tell me the easiest way of how this should be done? I 
mean Something like a Dialog box or any widget that would appear in the 
top-left corner on LTR and on top-right corner in RTL.

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