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KAnimatedButton Class

An extended version of QToolButton which can display an animation. More...

Header: #include <KAnimatedButton>
CMake: find_package(KF6 REQUIRED COMPONENTS WidgetsAddons)
target_link_libraries(mytarget PRIVATE KF6::WidgetsAddons)
Inherits: QToolButton

Properties

Public Functions

KAnimatedButton(QWidget *parent = nullptr)
QString animationPath() const
void setAnimationPath(const QString &path)

Public Slots

void start()
void stop()

Detailed Description

This widget extends QToolButton with the ability to display an animation. All you need to do is pass along a path to a file containing an animation, it can be anything supported by QMovie, or a picture containing all the frames of the animation next to each other (each frame being assumed of having the same size).

Property Documentation

animationPath : QString

Access functions:

QString animationPath() const
void setAnimationPath(const QString &path)

Member Function Documentation

[explicit] KAnimatedButton::KAnimatedButton(QWidget *parent = nullptr)

Construct an animated tool button.

parent The parent widget

QString KAnimatedButton::animationPath() const

Returns the path used to load the animation

Note: Getter function for property animationPath.

See also setAnimationPath().

void KAnimatedButton::setAnimationPath(const QString &path)

Sets the path to the file which contains the animation to load.

path The path of the file containing the animation

Note: Setter function for property animationPath.

See also animationPath().

[slot] void KAnimatedButton::start()

Starts the animation from frame 1

[slot] void KAnimatedButton::stop()

Stops the animation. This will also reset the widget to frame 1.