Rob Browning wrote:
> 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)
...
> Would that do most of what you want?
This may not be quite as "pretty" as what I was thinking of, but certainly
sounds fine for now. It certainly passes the UNIX Philosophy "80% rule"
of providing 80% of the functionality that I was hoping for. Furthermore,
it looks to be more widely reusable, which is a Good Thing.
I drafted up a little example to check it out, and gather that it's not
in the current CVS archives.
> > 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 thought I'd seen a similar explanation a while back; could be wrong.
> > 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.
If at all possible, it would be very nice. Interfacing with Readline
would be a bonus...
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