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Re: GNUe Designer bzr-948 ~ Simple form wizard
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Randall Whitman |
Subject: |
Re: GNUe Designer bzr-948 ~ Simple form wizard |
Date: |
Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:08:15 -0700 |
> I've just created my first form with the wizard, and not only that it
> works, the XML created by designer really looks nice, regarding
> formatting and arrangement! :-)
Great to hear, thanks.
> The wizard itself is somewhat "compressed" on my screen, for example the
> listbox with the fields to select only shows 2 letters.
On mine, it shows about 4 characters ... funny thing is, when testing with
the same table repeatedly, and focusing on other things ... I really never
noticed that. There certainly is room to display that better.
> It seems like designer has some separate display routines to show the
> current design of the form. I believe that some earlier version of
> designer used gnue-forms to actually display the layout, and if you
> think this is a good option and some changes in gnue-forms are necessary
> to achieve this, I'm ready to make these changes.
Correct. I have not yet thoroughly thought through what I think would be
the better approach. Designer and Forms are doing slightly different things
when displaying a form:
* Forms must provide a functional form, but has no interest in modifying
the form definition;
* Designer would like to update form definitions (add fields, reorder things,
maybe change sizing, ...), but does not necessarily need to embed a
functional form (although if not substantially more difficult, might
in fact be a neat feature).
/Randall