Signal editor (was Re: [Glade-devel] small patch)

[bighead@users.sourceforge.net]

Hey 

One idea that came to me (well as I read the previous 2 mails in answer to
Joaquins I realized from Qt Designer), have the Add Remove,and the handlers
come as children in the tree list view. Howz that?

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Paolo Borelli <pborelli@katamail.com> writes:

> On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 22:11, Joaquin Cuenca Abela wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I've been hacking a bit on the signal editor.
> > 
> > What do you think of an interface like that one:
> > 
> > http://e98cuenc.free.fr/signals.png
> > 
> 
> It is nice (in particular 'in place' editing is sweet!), but I have a
> couple of concerns: 
> 
> > You add a new signal handler just typing the name of the handler, and you
> > remove it just erasing the name of the handler.
> > 
> 
> For adding a handler it looks good since you have to type the function
> name anyway, but have deleting as the only way for removing the handler
> is a bit weak... I's like to have a "remove handler" item in the popup
> menu.
> 
> Anyway the main problem I see is that you may want to have more than one
> handler for the same event. Once again the first suggestion that comes
> to my mind is an "add another handler" menu item in the popup menu.
> 
> If we don't want to rely on context menu, another idea could be leave
> the Add and Remove buttons: these would be sensitive only when a signal
> in the list is selected;
> * pressing Add starts in place editing, and maybe if pressed on a signal
> that already has a handler it creates a copy (I admit this is a bit
> convoluted ;-) 
> * pressin Delete removes the handler
> 
> > I want to also add the name of the class that each signal belongs (as with
> > the current "add a signal handler dialog").
> > 
> 
> This is obviously a must have :) but I'd say not as another column;
> my suggestion would be to add tree nodes as in the current glade3 add
> handler dialog, defaulting to have the first node expanded and the
> others grouped as suggested today by Shridar.
> (probably you could just cut&paste the implementation from the treeview
> in the add dialog)
> 
> 
> ciao
> 	paolo
> 
> 
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