Hi again,
Object properties dialog is not dockable yet. Are we aiming to fix this for 0.46?
Alexandre
I don't know for sure, but I think the dialogs which have not been made dockable are not dockable because they are GTK not gtkmm classes. You see, it's easy to make a gtkmm dialog dockable - you just change the base class of from dialog base to docker base. Not so easy for the old-style C dialogs, because they must first be C++ified into classes.
The bitmap export dialog is another example of this - although arguably it should be modal not dockable. Anyway, I was going to have a go at C ++ifying it some time.
Joel
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 14:43 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Hi again,
Object properties dialog is not dockable yet. Are we aiming to fix this for 0.46?
Alexandre
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Joel Holdsworth <joel@...1709...> writes:
The bitmap export dialog is another example of this - although arguably it should be modal not dockable. Anyway, I was going to have a go at C ++ifying it some time.
Please, if you c++ify it, don't make it modal. Having a dockable (or at least, non-modal) export dialog allows one-click export, and that is great. It also allows one to do several partial exports in a row without reopening the dialog. On the other hand, what are the reasons to make it modal? Modal dialogs are a pain to work with when there is no danger of inconsistency, and I don't see what danger there is in the case of the export dialog.
-- Florent
That's what I gather as well - these dialogs need to be converted to C++ using our dialog architecture first. The work involved in this is obviously not something that can be done in our current freeze state. I'd definitely encourage work on this for 0.47 though, and would be happy to try to answer questions for anyone wishing to undertaking it.
Bryce
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:26:00PM +0000, Joel Holdsworth wrote:
I don't know for sure, but I think the dialogs which have not been made dockable are not dockable because they are GTK not gtkmm classes. You see, it's easy to make a gtkmm dialog dockable - you just change the base class of from dialog base to docker base. Not so easy for the old-style C dialogs, because they must first be C++ified into classes.
The bitmap export dialog is another example of this - although arguably it should be modal not dockable. Anyway, I was going to have a go at C ++ifying it some time.
Joel
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 14:43 +0300, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Hi again,
Object properties dialog is not dockable yet. Are we aiming to fix this for 0.46?
Alexandre
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Joel Holdsworth <joel@...1709...> wrote:
The bitmap export dialog is another example of this - although arguably it should be modal not dockable.
No! Please never make it modal. Much of its convenience is in you being able to select different things on canvas and exporting them while the dialog is open. Making it dockable would be nice, of course.
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Alexandre Prokoudine
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Bryce Harrington
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bulia byak
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Florent Becker
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Joel Holdsworth