[MonoDevelop] General purpose Toolbox and PropertyGrid

[Lluis Sanchez]

El mar, 18-04-2006 a las 18:10 +0100, Michael Hutchinson escribió:
> On 4/18/06, Lluis Sanchez <lluis at ximian.com> wrote:
> <snip>
> > For the first goal: I think we can implement in MD a toolbox generic
> > enough to be useful for ASP.NET, Stetic or any other designer. I don't
> 
> I have started implementing one already that should be generic enough.
> The ComponentModel does get involved here, with ToolboxItems wanting a
> DesignerHost to create their objects in, but I wrapped them in a more
> generic toolbox object. There are also ComponentModel attributes and
> other mecthanisms for identifying which designer hosts the items
> should be visible for, 

Which attributes are those?

> and we'll need this. My current sticking point
> is wondering how best to serialise it to disk. A full XML/
> object-based db for all designers' toolbox items could get big, but I
> suspect SqlLite would be too heavy.

Why do you need to serialize it to disk?

> 
> <snip>
> > class PropertyGridPad
> > {
> >         // To be used by different component models
> >         void SetPropertyGridWidget (Gtk.Widget w);
> >
> >         // To be used by System.ComponentModel users
> >         void ShowComponentProperties (object obj);
> > }
> 
> That's an interesting idea. I'd still like to share grid widgets for
> consistency as well as avoiding code duplication, and as I outlined in
> my other email I think that should be possible by allowing designers
> to push services to the grid. Still, this would be a good short-term
> solution and would leave it open for other designers the future that
> don't like the generic grid.
> 
> 
> Michael