At 12:28 AM 2/5/01 +1100, Martin Sevior wrote:
>I thought about making Page size/orientation a per section property but I
>decided not to do it because of the difficulties in propagating all the
>changes needed to the layout structure to the frame.
Ooooh, meaty work like that sounds like a very, very worthwhile POW.
>Basically all the
>layout classes and fv_View has to be destroyed and re-calculated for
>every view on the document and
No. You shouldn't need to destroy the entire view. There are two kinds of
editing operations here:
1. Splitting an existing section into two sections with different
formatting policies. Aren't there edit methods for this already?
2. Changing section-relative properties and reformatting and reflowing that
section accordingly.
If we can't easily do either, then that's a bug in the existing
implementation which should definitely be fixed. The current design
shouldn't be *that* broken.
>the Top and side rulers need to be re-drawn.
Yes. Ruler properties should be page-relative, based on the current
location of the selection or cursor.
>This is equivalent to changing the zoom level and is outside the scope of
>the layout classes. There is even some platform specific code required.
Yep. Not all features can be implemented at a single spot in the code.
However, once someone breaks it down into steps, I suspect that it's not as
bad as you make it seem.
(hint, hint)
Paul
