Subject: Re: bar tab
rms@greymalkin.yi.org
Date: Fri May 18 2001 - 13:43:23 CDT
Hello,
I've noticed that, and, sorry Martin, doing it any other way would be like trying to cross the street by going around the world.
I expected it to be easy, but a one liner :)
Paul, thanks for your tip, but it came too late.
Hugs, rms
On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:31:02PM -0700, Paul Rohr wrote:
> At 12:27 PM 5/18/01 +1000, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > I didn't read far enough to see you were planning to make this
> >work. By all means "go for it" As Paul says the easiest way is to eximine
> >whether "Top line" or "bottom line" buttons are active (or to a lookup
> >properties and see if the top line or bottom line attributes are on) when
> >handling clicks in the topruler code. If they are "on" insert a bar tab
> >rather than a left justified tab.
> >
> >You'll nee to look at ap_TopRuler.cpp. Find the code that handles clicks
> >there and go for it.
> >
> >Even more explicily, grab a pointer to the curent view. Do a
> >getCharProperties(), Look for the text decoration prorperty, Thne see if
> >top line or bottom line is present in the text decoration value.
> >
> >If so insert a bar tab not a left tab.
>
> Please do *not* implement it this way.
>
> Look at the upper left corner of the top ruler. In that little square is a
> picture of the tab type to used for the next tabstop added to the ruler.
> That widget defaults to a left tab, but by clicking on that square you can
> cycle the default to center, right, or decimal tab types.
>
> All you need is a two line fix (literally) to also enable bar tabs to be
> added to that sequence. I did all the other work required two years ago.
>
> Paul
> motto -- grep is your friend
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