Subject: Re: Win32 lists dlg
From: Thomas Fletcher (thomasf@qnx.com)
Date: Thu Nov 23 2000 - 06:50:50 CST
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Mike Nordell wrote:
> I had this problem in my mind all the time, but postponed it until the last
> possible moment. Perhaps a bad decision.
>
> Looking at the GTK+ implementation it seems like the font "button"
> (drop-list) contains all available fonts in the system, the QNX version
> seems to not even care about this. If the case is that the GTK+
> implementations does display all possible fonts in the system I *strongly*
> suggest an alternative solution, and this is about the way I will implement
> it.
>
> I will only create a "Font" button to let the user select a new font. I
> will not present the text "Current Font" on that *Button* and I currently
> will not display what font the user selected in the Lists dialog.
>
> This is one of the UI deceisions I agree with Microsoft about, don't display
> a drop-list (i.e. a combobox without user-editable data) for fonts.
> Selecting font is such a complex operation that it should (IMHO) be confined
> to one single dialog, and that's the dialog I intend to use for it.
>
My thoughts are/were 1) Font selection for QNX is not allowed
on this particular release because 2) We should be able to
hook into and call on our already existing font dialog
rather than making a list of fonts for the user to select.
If the font is selectable, then we should have a way to
display what the current font is. On a related note
I also think that we should have the bullet character as
a customizable feature.
These are things I'd like to address post 0.7.12. For
now I should make the QNX dialog disable the font button
so that decision is more clear until we have concensus.
Thomas
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Thomas (toe-mah) Fletcher QNX Software Systems
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