Re: New dialog framework

Hi Robert,

Just one more thought triggered by Dom's irc question about the
Prev/Next buttons. The buttons might work well for somethings, but not
so well for others. For example, for the bookmarks to be manageable they
need to be listed in alphabetical order. This raises the question of
what happens when the user selects a bookmark 'mark' and clicks Next.
Should we (a) move to the first bookmark after 'mark' in the document,
or (b) should we move to the next bookmark on the alphabetical list, or
(c) should we move to the first bookmark after the current document
position. More generally, as bookmarks are essentially unrelated to each
other, there seems to be only limited value in having the Prev/Next
buttons for them -- perhaps these should be dynamically disabled if the
user selects things like bookmarks.

Tomas

Robert Staudinger wrote:
> 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 13:47:11 2005