how to use kanimatedbutton?

[ManicQin]

Hi,
I'm new to KDE & pyQt.
I am trying to use kanimatedbutton and for now I have no luck,
the overall usage is like the usual Qt button but I dont have any luck on how to add the animation part.

I tried googling but I failed to find an example,
Can someone direct me to resources or example on how to use it?

Thanks!

p.s.
I did find the KDEUI: KanimatedButton reference but they dont explain how to add icons or what file types or anything

[Archimedes]

I'm not sure but as I see from the docs and the source code, I guess you have to use setIcons( const QString& icons ) to set the icons and then use start() to start the animation of the icons.
The doc says it "All you need to do is pass along a list of icon names and their size and everything else is taken care of."

[ManicQin]

Thanks Archimedes for your reply (and many many inventions )
I've seen the setIcons func but,
from what path? how can I connect it to the resources? with is the format of the string?

I'm guessing you dont know,
Do people even use this control? (and again I'm a newbie)
I'm guessing that if it was a widely used control Google would give me more results...

[Archimedes]

Ok here is what I've tried.

animateBut->setIcons("process-working-kde");
animateBut->start();

animateBut->setIcons("process-working-kde");
animateBut->start();

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Also open the file "process-working-kde.png" (it's located in /usr/share/icons/oxygen/16x16/animations) to see how the image is.
You'll see as 1 image all the frames of the animation.
I've also tried with .gif (no luck) and simple images that wasn't like the above image so I got 1 static icon in the button.

I created the following image in gimp. It's 16x240 with 15 squares that is 15 16x16 frames. Used it as the above code and worked.

[ManicQin]

Wow great, that takes me one step forward towards the solution

I started reading the KDE basics maybe I'll find how to set the path and connect it to a resource.

Thanks!

[eh3an2011]

All you need to do is pass along a list of icon names and their size and everything else is taken care of." ??

[kaufenpreis]

You can find information about your question at: https://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-...tedButton.html

[StephieJoe]

Just to inform: if you change the iconSize() via setIconSize(), you will need to call updateIcons() also to force reloading of the correct icon size.