New dialog framework

Hi Hub,

just for the record, it would be nice if the new dialog framework would
also support hooks for widgets, some sort of widget factory. When it
would be possible for plugins to hook into the dialogs some really
interesting optional stuff might become possible, e.g.
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6283 . It might be
sufficient to to hook only widgets to the factory which are known to
have plugins though.

Apart from that i've been thinking about generic validation/application
of input values. Would you also provide a framework / default
implementation for that? Validating different numbers and utf-8 strings
should be possible in xp land, that would move even more code there.
Maybe something remotely similar to gtkmm's VariablesMap but with
support for auto-apply (much needed on gtk, cocoa?).

Anyways, just a few incoherent ideas.
- Rob
Received on Thu Jan 20 06:51:33 2005