On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 11:04, Chris Shoemaker wrote: > Planned Direction: > Specifying my options dialog in scheme was nifty. (I could > even control layout with the sort order field.) But I can't seem to > get it to work for even a date type option, and I eventually visioned > having a FreqSpec option, too, which isn't already supported by the > options.scm. Therefore, this seems like it might be a dead-end.
The options stuff has always seemed like a bit of magic without [enough of] a commensurate reward. It's really easy to define a dialog like that in glade, and populate it with run-of-the-mill editing widgets. The callbacks for those widgets can easily enforce constraints and update a data-model object. > Here's another approach that might work: Specify my options > dialog using glade; handle property push/pull myself. Hey, that works well, and is what every other project does. :) Glade's really good at layout, and the code can then be well split between the view [GTK-handling] and model [gnucash] bits if you try for that. > Reflection: > I guess I was led down this road by > gnc-plugin-page-account-tree.c, which does use > gnc_build_options_dialog_contents(), but if I look more closely, I see > that this page's options don't work anyway. :( Is that fact in the GNOME2_STATUS file? [It doesn't appear to be :(] > I knew that there would be a learning curve for gnucash > hacking when I started -- and it is _large_. On the bright side, The curve is WAY too large. We need to simplify the codebase. This should be a priority soon after the gnome2 port is finished ... it's what I'm looking forward to, anyways. Specifically: * invert reporting framework [HTML files with language escapes/templating, not HTML-generating scheme code]. * strip out module system. * main() in C which loads scheme, not the other way around. * removing g-wrap dependency. * simplify register, especially in terms of UI-event handling. * consistent naming conventions. * [eventually] removing scheme entirely. * better split application-logic from UI-handling. Others? ...jsled -- http://asynchronous.org/ - `a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
