Re: Insert symbol dialog


Subject: Re: Insert symbol dialog
From: Joaquín Cuenca Abela (cuenca@ie2.u-psud.fr)
Date: Thu Apr 20 2000 - 05:52:38 CDT


Martin Sevior wrote:
>
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Bruce Pearson wrote:
>
> > Martin,
> >
> > I've done changes on the Insert symbol dialog. I've moved the files from
> > the af\xap directory to the wp\ap directory as I think this is where they
> > belong.
> >
>
> That was fast work! I'm really impressed.
>
> I thought about where to put everything and I thought it was better to put
> it xap because I think it would be useful to have "Insert Symbol" in both
> a spreadsheet and a Presentation Program. I can easily think of situations
> with both programs where you would want that functionality.
>
> What do you think?

I agree too. I don't see the point, Bruce, why do you need Insert
Symbol at wp/ap, instead of af/xap ?

> > On WIN98 I also changed the buttons from OK and CANCEL to INSERT and
> > CLOSE. The insert button inserts the symbol to the current frame without
> > closing. This is more inline with what will happen when we have modeless
> > dialogs. It calls the AP_Dialog_Insert_Symbol::_onInsertButton() function.
> >
>
> I thought about this as a default too but decided to go with purely modal
> style dialog to start with and expand this later. I don't have a problem
> with this though - in fact I prefer it. I will be away from the list for a
> couple of days. If Joaquin or someone else wants to change the unix build
> to reflect this I would be very happy :-)

Of course, but I have a little problem with the actual cvs tree. I have
a copy of the Insert Symbol dialog box at wp/ap (a copy!, I have another
one at af/xap!). Does anybody take a look at that?

--
Joaquín Cuenca Abela
e-mail: cuenca@ie2.u-psud.fr



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