Subject: Insert Symbol dialog
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2000 - 16:34:10 CST
At 06:57 AM 1/27/00 +1100, Martin Sevior wrote:
>On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, Paul Rohr wrote:
>> Also, anyone who's used other recent GUI word processors will probably
>> handle occasional entry of characters not easily found on your keyboard
via
>> an Insert Symbol dialog, which Martin Sevior's expressed an interest in
>> diving into.
>
>I've stared this. I think I know how to do most of it.
Cool. I'm presuming that most of this dialog can be done via XP drawing
calls to something like a large Preview area, right? I'm not sure whether
Previews do hit-testing yet, but that shouldn't be too hard to add on a
platform-specific basis.
>I'm not sure how
>abi will handle a non-modal dialog though.
Our dialog framework currently only works for true modal dialogs. Past
experience from other projects suggests that there's a fair amount of
platform-specific gyrations needed to make non-modal dialogs Just Work on
each platform -- more than you might at first expect, actually -- so we've
been trying to duck that issue for as long as possible.
For example, this is one of the reasons why find and replace are modal.
(The other has to do with the fact that we're not an MDI interface. If you
don't have to know, don't ask. It gets ugly.) None of our users seem to
have noticed or cared yet, so this seems to be an OK design choice.
How bad would it be to have a modal Symbol dialog?
>I hope to finish it in about a
>month. Sooner if work is not too busy.
Sweet.
Paul
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