On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> >HI Dom,
> > The dialog looks beautiful but it doesn't do anything. What do you
> >need help on?
>
> Well, lots of stuff needs to be implemented. What needs to be done (off of
> the top of my head):
>
> 1) Set page type to one of the fp_PageSize::Predefined values
This has been implemented by Daniel in the Setup dialog.
> 2) Allow a landscape mode
Invent a landscape/portrait attribute and write is out in the abi header.
(Like the lists definitions.) A bit of work in a number of places to swap
width for length diemensions.
> 3) Set Top/Bottom/Left/Right margins
Needs a bit of investigation. We might have to invent some
attributes/properties.
> 4) Set header/footer distance from the margins
>
We need to invent some properties for the sections and propagate this to
the header/footer code. I can do this.
I was going to finally finish the Lists dialog next but I can help on this
if you like.
If one of the other Lists dialog guru's wants to finish off the Lists
dialog I will follow their vision of what it should be like. Otherwise
you'll have to live with mine :-)
This will be:
1. Modeless
2. Non-updating if anything in the dialog is changed without applying.
3. No hiding of customizable controls.
4. 3 radio buttons.
"Start New List" "Start Sub List" "Add to List"
which will be enabled as appropriate.
5. Initially no preselected lists ala MS Word.
As I said, if someone else actually implements a modal dialog and needs a
gtk front end I'll help out. If someone else implements the MS Word dialog
for us I'll go along and help out too.
Cheers
Martin
