[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Next step involves mapping through the list of accounts, and asking the
> user to pick a favorite account. This probably mandates creating a
> GTK dialogue looking something like:
>
> ======================================================
> Category Translation Selection
>
> QIF file category "Rent" had 17 entries in the file.
> Best matches included:
> [ Rent ] Exact match
> [ Auto Rent ] Partial match
> [ Restaurants ] First letter match
> [ null ] Item from Category list
> [ Pick from Category List ]
> [ Create new category for this item ]
> ======================================================
>
> where the [braces] indicate a button that one would press to select
> the option given.
>
> I can probably "Glade" a function into place for this, although the
> "query Category list" items are liable to be hairy...
If you were willing to change the design so that the selections was
just a list of buttons with potentially long names (like "Rent: exact
match"), then one function could probably handle both this dialog and
a category-list sub-dialog:
(gnc:choose-from-list-dialog title
list-of-button-name-thunk-pairs-alist-or-hash-or-whatever)
Where the function puts up the dialog with the given buttons in a
vertical scrollbox and a cancel button at the bottom, and calls the
thunks whenever the buttons are pressed, and returns whenever one of
the thunks returns '(result <foo>), the function returns '(result
<foo>), where foo is some value. If the user presses cancel, the
function should return a simple #f.
Forcing the thunk to tell the dialog that it's done allows you to have
the buttons that bring up sub-dialogs.
Would that do most of what you want?
> Of course it would be in the main README... Teaches me to not look
> close enough...
This stuff was just added in the past week or two, so if you looked
before, it wouldn't have been there (at least not this new "improved"
method.
> I suspect that guile-in-window is liable to be really quite useful for
> debugging scripts as it allows me to be reasonably sure that I've got
> the same environment that I see if I load the register.
I'll see how hard it would be. I wanted it the other day myself.
> I'll see how it goes without it.
Keep me posted.
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Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930
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