On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Bruno Dilly <bdi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Iván Briano (Sachiel)
> <sachi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:56 AM, Tom Hacohen
>> <tom.haco...@partner.samsung.com> wrote:
>>> Yay.
>>> Does that mean that elementary will finally be moved out of TMP? :P
>>>
>>> Anyhow, great job, I love elementary, and was very glad to see this
>>> announcement.
>>>
>>> Please consider also including a bit of "internals exposing", for
>>> example, elm_notepad is made of an elm_entry, we should have a function
>>> "elm_notepad_elm_entry_get" that returns the elm_entry and lets up
>>> manipulate it like a regular entry, for example, setting line_wrap,
>>> toggling the "editable property", getting selection, and whatever. It's
>>> nice because we get a lot of cool stuff "for free", it's of course up to
>>> the users of the API not to do forbidden stuff like moving the elm_entry
>>> object itself, or whatever, but there are other idiotics thing that
>>> can't be done by the users and aren't done.
>>>
>>
>> No. Returning internal objects for users to meddle with is a very bad idea.
>> What's done around with other composed widgets is adding functions
>> mirroring the ones of the internal widgets. It's ugly and I really dislike 
>> it,
>> but at least you keep your internals protected and when something is
>> not supposed to be done, you don't have to go around documenting it,
>> instead you just not provide the function to do it.
>
> I've been talking to Falcão, and what about just including the (auto)
> save / file set stuff to (scrolled) entries and remove notepad ?
> So if you want to set an entry to load / save to a file, you can use
> it the same way you could use notepad.
> Do you guys think it's a reasonable idea?

from all ideas it seems like the best... but really, since there is no
optimized way of saving (like saving incrementally or such), is saving
to a file something really worth to have in an entry???


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