Re: misc guii

2001-07-21 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:18:42PM +0200, Edwin Leuven wrote: ... > From: Edwin Leuven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 19:18:42 +0200 > X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: misc

Re: misc guii

2001-07-19 Thread Angus Leeming
Priorities, priorities. I'd suggest that LyX is fun but that if you stop work on it, it'll magically continue on it's own happy course. Is the same true of a thesis? Unfortumately not. You've invested five years into this labour of love, but you'll get nothing tangible in return unless you fi

Re: misc guii

2001-07-18 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Angus Leeming wrote: > > Allan. (ARRae) Who feels retirement or at least a sabatical coming on. > > What's this? Are you feeling burnt out from writing a thesis or bored of LyX. Not enough thesis and too many LyX emails to read each day. Maybe I should do like Amir did and

Re: misc guii

2001-07-18 Thread Angus Leeming
> Allan. (ARRae) Who feels retirement or at least a sabatical coming on. What's this? Are you feeling burnt out from writing a thesis or bored of LyX. What about that shoulder to lean on I've been relying on all this time. I'm not sure I can stand on my own two feet after all this time!!! Bes

Re: misc guii

2001-07-17 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Angus Leeming wrote: > Nice. But make it invisible to the LyX kernel. I'd like to see a few signals, > so that the interaction with the kernel is the same as for other frontend > stuff. > > // Non-buffer specific signals. Instance owned by LyXGUI or LyX class. > class GlobalD

Re: misc guii

2001-07-17 Thread Edwin Leuven
> distributions. lyx maintainers. no reason to do it on the fly though > imagine a lyx that become gnome-lyx or kde-lyx depending on the DE running. same as above. and don't talk to me about desktop switching, or other silly slashdot hobby's. when you're used to one it's bloody irritating to s

Re: misc guii

2001-07-17 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:19:24PM +0200, Edwin Leuven wrote: > > Yes, I agree we should do this. > > Although I don't see the point of switching frontends on the fly. Who would > want to do a thing like that? distributions. lyx maintainers. imagine a lyx that become gnome-lyx or kde-lyx depe

Re: misc guii

2001-07-17 Thread Edwin Leuven
> Yes, I agree we should do this. Although I don't see the point of switching frontends on the fly. Who would want to do a thing like that? Ed.

Re: misc guii

2001-07-17 Thread John Levon
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 04:37:06PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > At the moment it emits signals into the ether for most things but FileDialog > is an example where this isn't true. Shame. I'd like it to be true for all > these things. > > Anyway, do it your way. Coding is, after all, an iterat

Re: misc guii

2001-07-17 Thread Angus Leeming
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 16:17, Edwin Leuven wrote: > > Nice. > > Which one? I guess the first... > > > But make it invisible to the LyX kernel. I'd like to see a few > > signals, so that the interaction with the kernel is the same as for other > > frontend stuff. > > Why? Can't I just do like F

Re: misc guii

2001-07-17 Thread Edwin Leuven
> Nice. Which one? I guess the first... > But make it invisible to the LyX kernel. I'd like to see a few > signals, so that the interaction with the kernel is the same as for other > frontend stuff. Why? Can't I just do like FileDialog: have a MessageBox.h in frontends and the actual implement

Re: misc guii

2001-07-17 Thread Angus Leeming
Nice. But make it invisible to the LyX kernel. I'd like to see a few signals, so that the interaction with the kernel is the same as for other frontend stuff. // Non-buffer specific signals. Instance owned by LyXGUI or LyX class. class GlobalDialogs { SignalXXX Information; } MessageBo

Re: misc guii

2001-07-17 Thread Edwin Leuven
About a messagebox, I can implement something a la Qt: a real dialog with convenience member functions: class MessageBox { MessageBox(); MessageBox(string const& caption, string const& text, int button0, int button1, int button2,

Re: misc guii

2001-07-16 Thread Allan Rae
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Edwin Leuven wrote: > Anyone any thoughts on these issues? Compare with KLyX. I think they combined a few of these and have an askForText which is general enough to also be used for the Label dialog. Allan. (ARRae)

Re: misc guii

2001-07-13 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:36:09PM +0200, Edwin Leuven wrote: > lyx_gui_misc.[Ch] defines a number of functions that need to become guii: > > askForText > AskConfirmation > AskQuestion > WriteAlert > -WriteFSAlert > -WarnReadonly > > I also saw that a MessageBox was flagged as pending, who is t