Subject: Re: Insert Symbol as a button?
From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 27 2000 - 03:40:42 CST
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On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:
> HI everyone,
> I've just about finished the "Insert Symbol" dialog (for gtk).
> (See shot!). It is a standard modal "Insert Symbol" dialog. I just want to
> add a little colour highlight to the area in the symbol table to show
> where the symbol is in the table and I hope to get a patch submitted by
> Monday. It makes extensive use of the cross platform gr_graphics stuff as
> suggested by Paul. Still the gtk front end is a significant amount of
> code.
Looking at the screen shot, this looks very good. another feature request
bites the dust.
>
> I have a question for the list though. Should "Insert Symbol" get its own
> button? There is room for it on the toolbar with cut, paste etc. Do people
> think that is it would be better to preserve this space for more used
> functions?
I think that not enough people use the Insert Symbol dialog regualarly
enough to have it on a toolbar. However, if you do use it, it is likely
to be used reguarly. Therefor, we should certainly assign a key
combination to it. For example, WP uses CTRL-W.
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin Sevior
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sam th
sytobinh@uchicago.edu
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