On 12/14/2015 04:58 PM, Yves Guillemot wrote:

> Thanks to report any problem or possible improvment about it.

It's pretty easy to hit the clear button by accident, and you can't undo 
if you wipe out the text you typed.  It could have an "are you sure" 
dialog or it would be just as good to push some command onto the undo 
stack.  Either one of those is just enough trouble to be more than I'm 
going to code today.  The undo stack is probably the superior choice, 
although I imagine it could get complicated, so the dialog is more 
attractive, just because I'm really lazy these days.

I'm thinking about a checkbox under those buttons that says something 
like "[x] Show notes when loading document."

Rig the document load code to look for this, and pop up this editor 
window after loading is complete.  It isn't immediately obvious how to 
implement that, since this is on a tab inside the overall document 
properties editor.  I think there are precedents for that elsewhere in 
the code.  Make the editor a widget, and the widget can belong to that 
page or to a separate, dedicated dialog.

I'm really interested in the ability to show notes upon loading a 
document.  I considered doing that for years, and never got around to 
it.  Put information in the example files to explain what the thing is 
for when the user loads it.  Some files focus on MIDI, some on notation, 
some on DSSI plugins, etc., and it would be cool to be able to just tell 
the user that stuff in a pop-up dialog they could easily silence.

My interest in this checkbox/pop up dialog is high enough that it's 
something I would code myself, but I want to get your opinion before I 
hijack your new feature.  (Also, I have practically no time, and if you 
should happen to love the idea and go code it yourself, I would not 
object in the slightest to being deprived of the opportunity to fire up 
my text editor.  This is not remotely the same as asking you to write it 
for me, however.)

-- 
D. Michael McIntyre

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