> On 08 Feb 2000 12:45:58 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as
> Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > Rob Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > While following up on another PR, I found a drop down list box which
> > > had "split" listed in it. however, I cannot find a simple way to do
> > > a 2 for 1, a 1 for 2, a 4 for 1, or an x for y.
> >
> > What I'd like to see is for us in the common cases, where the "right"
> > answer is clear, to come up with some "helper scripts" that you can
> > access from a menu that will walk you through things like this, asking
> > whatever questions are relevant. I'd like to get our guile side
> > control up to a sufficient level of sophistication so that we can just
> > run these interactions from there, and then it'll be easy for people
> > to design their own, and contribute them if they're of sufficient
> > generality.
>
> I'd brought Glade up at one point, and Dave Peticolas wasn't sure how
> it could be useful, considering that the major GUI object, the
> register, isn't something that Glade is up to coping with.
>
> *This* is the place where it it could actually be useful to have Glade
> integration so as to be able to do visual GUI arrangement work.
>
> On The Other Hand, it might be sufficient to have some custom tying of
> GTK widgets to Guile for some useful set of "helper" interactions,
> effectively providing a Little Language for writing helpers.
We might want to look at the Gnome Druids (i.e., wizard dialogs)
that are designed just for ths sort of thing. They are composed
of pages where you answer questions, and the user can move back
and forth through the pages and hit 'finish' at the end, or
'cancel' anytime.
The advantage there would be a consistent look and feel for all
the 'helper' scripts.
dave
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