Would multiline text input be useful for extensions? I can think of three specific uses at the moment:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1187444&gro... Scala scale descriptions for my fretboard designer. LSystem rules.
But all of these could be solved in other ways: line delimiters and extension specific GUIs. Thoughts?
Aaron Spike
On Sunday 24 Apr 2005 16:52, aaron@...749... wrote:
Would multiline text input be useful for extensions? I can think of three specific uses at the moment:
Where would this be?
But all of these could be solved in other ways: line delimiters and extension specific GUIs. Thoughts?
Personally, I'm holding out for the extensions-to-the-main-GUI approach ;)
On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 10:52 -0500, aaron@...749... wrote:
Would multiline text input be useful for extensions? I can think of three specific uses at the moment:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1187444&gro... Scala scale descriptions for my fretboard designer. LSystem rules.
But all of these could be solved in other ways: line delimiters and extension specific GUIs. Thoughts?
From the coding perspective, no problem. I'm just concerned that we're
setting ourselves up for a failed user paradigm. I can't think of a way that you could accurately describe a grammar in a text string, so it is likely that users will have lots of issues with that text box. If it was something like "Enter the text you want made to look like wood here", and it was English text put on the screen, I'm all for it. But a programming language? That scares me.
On the Logo stuff, it seems like that would be a better input extensions though. Is there a Logo standard format? Jon Cruz and I were talking about Logo this weekend. Jon, is there a standard format?
--Ted
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