Re: WordCount dialog


Subject: Re: WordCount dialog
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Nov 11 2000 - 01:19:54 CST


On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Mike Nordell wrote:

Hi Mike,

Thanks for another good lesson on C++. Who needs formal training :-)?
>
> > These headings are in all the modeless dialogs. Maybe we should dispense
> > with the prepended path name in the title of document. This is a better
> > lowest-common denominator solution.
>
> After thinking about this for a while, I think we should just truncate the
> document name. I.e. a dialog stating "I can only handle 'n' chars) should
> display its caption/title as
>
> "Foo Dialog - Docum..."
>
> (I think the ellipsis replacing "..." part is crucial).
>
> What do you think?
>
>

If I'm editting the file:

/home/msevior/abidir/AbiSuite/bin/chaos_prog.abw

(To pick a random example) I think the dialog should say:

Foo Dialog:- chaos_prog.abw

To distingish the fact the that the currently active document is

chaos_prog.abw and not:

/home/msevior/abidir/AbiSuite/bin/YALT_file.abw

which is also being editted but was not the most recently focussed. If it
were the heading would be:

Foo dialog:- YALT_file.abw

Cheers

Martin



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