Subject: Re: About the 0.7.12 deadline and the list's dialog box
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Nov 22 2000 - 15:08:27 CST
On 22 Nov 2000, Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:
> There are some problems with the current list's dialog box, for
> instance:
>
> Imagine that you're a church secretary->Start Abi->Open list's dialog
> box->
> it says that the "Type" of the list will be "Numbered", so everything is
> ok, now click in the "OK" button to start a new list and...
> ops
> nothing happens.
>
> In short, the problem is that the "Style" of the list is "None", when it
> has to be "Numbered List", and that's because the dialog is not building
> correctly the options of the Style menu binded with the "Type" selected
> option (yes I know that my english and the description sucks, but open
> the dialog and play a bit with it and you will see by yourself).
Yes, Joaquin I know. IMHO we state in the release notes that we're still
debugging the preview of the list dialog to give ourselves an out but when
Mike is ready we should ship provided no more bad bugs arises.
Church secretaries are using our preview releases yet :-(
>
> The dialog has some more glitches , specially when you play with the
> "Customized" option.
> Due to these problems, I will ask for a delay of a week or so (it seems
> that Mike needs too some more time for the windows dialog).
>
> What do you think?
> Martin, do you know of any stupid one-line-patch that solves the
> problem?
Yes. I think so. I think we just need to implement the concept of a dirty
preview. If the preview is changed due to User interaction in the dialog
moving the cursor in the main window won't update the dialog preview. We
need an extra button "clear" to sync the preview with the current list
behaviour in the document. Then the preview is "clean" and should update
as the user moves about the document. If the user changes something in the
dialog it won't update until either "apply" or "clear".
I can whip this up in an hour or two I think.
Martin
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