Re: [Denemo-devel] Transpose

[Jeremiah Benham]

On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 16:35 +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 10:01 -0500, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> > Which option would you prefer. I am sure I can do option #1 very
> > easily
> Yes - it's just a lot of tedious cut and paste. And then a little bit of
> writing printf's with lots of escaping of % characters etc.
> > but I don't want ease to be a deciding factor. Which option do you
> > think
> > is the best for denemo? 
> doing both is best for denemo. The first is good because it improves the
> code, even if we don't use the generated interface in the end. At the
> moment some actions are listed in generate_source.c and some are listed
> in view.c which is purely historical (to do with ones that were in menus
> and ones that weren't, now they all are).

So if I understand you we are going to implement both ideas. Ok. I will
get started on that later tonight after I get off work.

Jeremiah


> > Maybe later we can use both ideas. Statical list
> > of menu items and additional dynamically generated if available.  
> Exactly, the second is very quick to do - just needs looking up the gtk
> hash store functions (they are already in use in the keyboard stuff, in
> fact the keyboard hash store is very nearly there, it has
> GtkActionEntry* s stored in it rather than GtkAction* s, but now that
> there is a single set of GtkActions for the whole program, this can be
> changed, which gets rid of some switches (to do with whether it is a
> GtkActionEntry or a GtkRadioActionEntry etc). But you do need an
> understanding of some stuff to do this - I can do this quite quickly
> when I get back.
> But meanwhile, just the ability to call all the menu items will allow
> you to write a script that would e.g.
> goto start
> measureright
> measureright
> ...
> SetMark
> measureright
> print excerpt
> 
> which would print a png of the n'th measure (depending on how many
> measureRight calls the script made).
> Richard
> 
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